Webcam problems with skype and cheese

[Pinkar]

Hello Everybody, im new at this (very new). I just installed ubuntu 11.10 and well it works actually pretty nice (except that i cant use netflix) but the main problem right now is my web cam.

I installed Skype and it runs but at first i noticed that i couldnt se her webcam (who is pretty hot so you can relate to my urgency) and she couldnt see mine.

At some point i could see her but she couldnt see me, and the next call i was back on square one.

so i try to look for some forums and they say that i should install cheese. I did

It doesnt even run. I click on the icon and it just kidna flashes and nothing happens. The forums also say that i should run it from the terminal, but, well... im a noob so i dont know how to run things from the terminal (i already found the terminal).

At last in a desperate attempt i run camorama webcam and i can see my beautiful face. so at least the cam is working. but i dont know how to conect it to skype.

Thanks in advance!

[Script Warlock]

Hi welcome to ubuntu forums

with regards to your issue this site might help shed some light to your cam problem. and here

if you came across with this command

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

try this on ubuntu 11.10

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l2convert.so.0 /usr/bin/skype

[Pinkar]

yeah!... well i already tried those before, really not a lot of help cause when i reach parts that say try this comand im really lost, like i should put them in the terminal?

like this:

echo "#! /bin/sh" > skype-cam-fix
echo "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype" >> skype-cam-fix
chmod a+x skype-cam-fix
sudo mv skype-cam-fix /usr/local/bin

i read that and my mind goes blank, where can i get like a jump start in ubuntu coding so i get an idea of what does those lines do and where should i stick them?

(i know im a noob)

[Script Warlock]

ok will do this step by step. first give us the result of lsusb on the terminal.

[aleoo]

Hi, I have the same problem, these are my results:

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. M5602 Video Camera Controller

[Flywaver]

Hi welcome to ubuntu forums

with regards to your issue this site might help shed some light to your cam problem. and here

if you came across with this command

try this on ubuntu 11.10

for some reason with my 11.10 setup I don't have a libv4l folder anywhere and if I check in synaptic it shows libv4l-0 installed

It's really annoying because the cam works with camorama but not with skype or empathy (3.2.0.1)...and when I run v4l2ucp it says "unable to get menu item for exposure, auto, index=0 will use unknown" and "unable to get menu item for exposure, auto, index=2 will use unknown" but then the app opens and if I go to Start Preview it opens the cam with MPlayer

[aleoo]

Hi, I have the same problem, these are my results:

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. M5602 Video Camera Controller

Is anybody trying 12.04?

[aleoo]

Is anybody trying 12.04?

Can anybody tell me if, using the latest version 12.04, the problem persists?

[mörgæs]

No, but you can tell us. Just try a live boot.

By the way, please don't cross-post.

[rich4676]

HI - another noob here - having similar problems with webcam on Ubuntu 11.10:

1) Picture is upside down (checking other forums to address this)
2) Cheese not working. When I run Cheese it flashes for a second and that's it. When I run from command line I get the following message:

richard@richard-UL30A:~$ cheese

(cheese:17396): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(Same text repeats 5 more times)

(cheese:17396): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel

(cheese:17396): Gdk-WARNING **: The program 'cheese' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 950 error_code 9 request_code 137 minor_code 9)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

BTW - Webcam is a (built-in) Suyin on an ASUS X32A

Any help very gratefully received - thanks