No image in Cheese/Skype webcam issue

**alexmoon** · February 25th, 2013

Yes. This is a problem for future-sky. Present-sky just has to deal with no webcam (and a huge stack of work).

**stoneguy** · March 5th, 2013

As of right now, no image in Skype/Cheese with Raring. Reported via Launchpad #1146829

**Mugatu** · March 5th, 2013

Try this:

http://askubuntu.com/a/264461/18665

If it works for you, please contribute to the bug report mentioned in that link, so we can get as much attention from developers as possible to get this resolved soon. Thanks!

**ryzaja** · March 9th, 2013

Originally Posted by alexmoon

Hi,

After the latest update, the image from my webcam is displaying as just black (I've tried in Cheese, Skype, and guvcview and got the same result). I've double-checked that I didn't accidentally turn off my webcam, but I haven't.

I had same problem after kernel upgrade. This solution helped me to fix it:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/15298.../171358#171358