What should I do?

[John Gill]

I'm not sure what The Source will say about you returning the cam, but I
found this page very helpful when I bought a cam recently:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SkypeWebCams

Print it off and take it along to the store and you have a good chance of
getting something that works.

One other thing, webcam support is improving in Ubuntu -- intrepid was
better than hardy (with some notable exceptions), so maybe waiting 6 months
will solve your problem ;)

John

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Scott <sclewin at sgaming.ca> wrote:

>        I bought a web cam for my wife to use with Ubuntu.  She badly wants
> one
> to use with a site called singsnap.  So, I went over to The Source and
> purchased at Nexxtech web cam.
>
>        I thought because it was a generic USB web cam it would work fine
> out
> of the box, but it did not work at all.  Flash would not recognize it,
> ekiga would recognize it as a CIF PC Cam, but displays nothing.  Going
> to google only made things worse.  All I found were several other people
> asking how to get it working, with no answers and a guy using this as an
> example why not to switch to Ubuntu from Windows.
>
>        So, what should do?  Should I try to return it to The Source and try
> to
> find one that does work with Ubuntu?  Id that is the suggestion do
> people know if The Source will take a return on an opened product?  Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> Your friend,
> Scott
> http://sgaming.ca
>
> Sent to you from a Linux computer using Ubuntu Version 8.10
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