web cam

[Raymond House]

Hi, yes the camera is being recognized, it says ' generic digital camera "
but nothing in the test window it's black.


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:19 AM, CrankyOldBugger
<crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>wrote:

> Is the camera just not being recognised, or are you getting an error
> message?  If the latter, what is the error?
>
> If the camera is not being recognised, can you turn it on before you start
> Skype then try to get Skype to see it while it's running?
>
>
>
>
> On 9 May 2014 07:22, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I posted a request for info about getting a webcam to work on skype
>> with my pc running ubuntu 14.04 and unity and I tried all the tips in
>> ubuntu help to no avail, my 2 daughters are also using ubuntu 14.04 on
>> their laptops and they have no problems with skype, can I assume that the
>> camera type is the problem for me? It is not listed in ubuntu wiki skype
>> webcams list. thanks
>>
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