galaphile361
February 3rd, 2009, 04:08 PM
Hi all,
The short version of the problem is that my webcam was working pretty well, but now is no longer working at all.
The long version: My Creative LiveCam VideoIM (VF0350) webcam was working on my Latitude D620 laptop running Ubuntu 8.04, with the only problem being a vertical translucent green bar through the center of the picture (as seen by the person on the other end of the Skype call). To try and fix this, I went through the instructions on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=945803&highlight=skype+video but ended up GIVING myself the problem that those people were trying to fix - namely, I get the green and blue noise on my webcam - both in Cheese and Skype - so now it's completely useless. I think if I could figure out how to uninstall that libv4l library, I'd be back to square one, but if anyone else could help me get this completely fixed, that'd be beyond awesome.
I posted this in the Dell forums because I remember reading about people who fixed their green bar problem by simply updating the video driver to .4814 (a la http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=LATITUDE%20D620&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=) but I couldn't do that because Wine couldn't figure out how to run that (I got an error about my system having insufficient resources). So that's when I tried taking the libv4l route.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Daniel
The short version of the problem is that my webcam was working pretty well, but now is no longer working at all.
The long version: My Creative LiveCam VideoIM (VF0350) webcam was working on my Latitude D620 laptop running Ubuntu 8.04, with the only problem being a vertical translucent green bar through the center of the picture (as seen by the person on the other end of the Skype call). To try and fix this, I went through the instructions on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=945803&highlight=skype+video but ended up GIVING myself the problem that those people were trying to fix - namely, I get the green and blue noise on my webcam - both in Cheese and Skype - so now it's completely useless. I think if I could figure out how to uninstall that libv4l library, I'd be back to square one, but if anyone else could help me get this completely fixed, that'd be beyond awesome.
I posted this in the Dell forums because I remember reading about people who fixed their green bar problem by simply updating the video driver to .4814 (a la http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=LATITUDE%20D620&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=) but I couldn't do that because Wine couldn't figure out how to run that (I got an error about my system having insufficient resources). So that's when I tried taking the libv4l route.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Daniel