My configuration of my MSI Wind notebook as a Xubuntu based machine is coming along quite nicely. I still don't have an answer to offline blogging, but yesterday I added skype and dropbox, dropbox so I can access all my files, and skype so I can call home.
Dropbox just installed. Skype needed a dpkg -i command but installed without issue - or so I thought until I tested it.
No webcam.
So I tried cheese - again no webcam device detected. I assumed (wrongly) that the device driver was missing or incorrect and set out on a hunt for the correct driver.
Luckily I didn't find one.
Instead I found a slew of posts from people with similar problems and no answer, and finally a post with a reply that fixed the problem.
And it was a facepalm moment.
Apparently the MSI has privacy switch controlled by the F6 key to disable the web cam, and - you guessed it - the default startup state is off.
Hit the key, the webcam is enabled, and everything works. Colours are bit crappy, but it's a webcam.
I can live with that ...
Dropbox just installed. Skype needed a dpkg -i command but installed without issue - or so I thought until I tested it.
No webcam.
So I tried cheese - again no webcam device detected. I assumed (wrongly) that the device driver was missing or incorrect and set out on a hunt for the correct driver.
Luckily I didn't find one.
Instead I found a slew of posts from people with similar problems and no answer, and finally a post with a reply that fixed the problem.
And it was a facepalm moment.
Apparently the MSI has privacy switch controlled by the F6 key to disable the web cam, and - you guessed it - the default startup state is off.
Hit the key, the webcam is enabled, and everything works. Colours are bit crappy, but it's a webcam.
I can live with that ...
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