Fixing your webcam in Ubuntu Jaunty
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
After more than two years running Feisty on my Dell Latitude D820, I finally decided it was time to upgrade my Ubuntu distribution to the latest release tagged Jaunty. I started to lack a couple of essentials like Firefox 3, Flash Player 10 and I wanted to get my hands on the Google Chrome browser too. Installation was super smooth and within 20 minutes I could login to my new system.
Now, the webcam issue : I have a QuickCam Messenger webcam, which is recognized correctly by Ubuntu, but it does not work with Skype or JMF (Java Media Framework) applications. (more...)