If this works, you can change the Menu entry similar to how suggests doing:Ĭopy /usr/share/applications/sktop to a file in your Profile to prevent future updates from undoing your changes.
In Ubuntu 12.04 the path for 64bit changed again, so use LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype In Ubuntu 11.10 the path changed, so for 32bit use LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skypeĪnd for 64bit use LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype Or if you're on a 64bit system (if output of uname -m is x86_64): LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype Start Skype from a Terminal window by running: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype
To fix this, the proposed solution of the other answers is already almost correct. If the webcam does work in Cheese but not in Skype, that's because this webcam can only output JPEG compressed frames which Skype cannot handle. You can check if it's loaded with: lsmod | grep sonixj The kernel module for this webcam is called gspca_sonixj. The driver for this webcam is already included, and it should work out of the box.
