My story was anything but. The webcam did get detected by whatever hotplug manager du jour is for Ubuntu. However Skype test call wasn't working. After a few hours of google searching -- there goes my Saturday -- I fixed the problem and here are my notes.
- sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio (another sound server du-jour)
- System/Preferences/Sessions, uncheck Pulse Audio
- System/Preferences/Sound, set everything to ALSA, set Sound Capture to USB Device OSS
- Skype/Options/Sound Devices, Sound In -> USB Device (plughw), Sound Out -> Default, Ringing -> Default
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "TexturedVideo" "off"
EndSection
3 comments:
awesome. thanks for sharing. saves folks alot of time :)
GLORIOUS!! I thought I tried every setting possible, but apparently not.
I had a similar problem with a different Logitech camera using Ubuntu 7.10 (where pulse audio isn't even a factor). I just needed the settings, which seem to be working for me.
Thanks for this.
Thanks...I stumbled on your post. I've been going mad trying to figure this one out. Now I can finally convince the wife to get rid of Windows and install Ubuntu on our main computer. Finally!
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