Being a sad old git, I am changing my operating system from Windows Vista to Ubuntu, so far very few problems except I can't get my webcam to work on SH so it might be back to windows.
If anyone has any experience of using this system on here your advice would be appreciated.
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Nobby
never seen that windows befor n first word i seen with 3 u in it Ubuntu
Nobby
I am using Ubuntu, getting the web cam to work was challenging. I didn't particularly have problems with the drivers, more with adobe flash and the mozilla web browser. I have put some suggestions below based on my experiences. If your webcam is working on other things, or indeed you have only tried it on SH try my last suggestion first (this was the biggest problem with getting the cam working).
As suggested by SinSi check that the webcam is working. If it is working with , Cheese or both then this is sufficient. If not also try luvcview which is a bit less complex (downright primitive is a better description), and allows you to change the settings of the camera.
Next, rather than the very latest version, I would recommend that you use the LTS version of Ubuntu which is at the minute. If you can't get the webcam to work at all try using this version.
Also check the lists of compatible cameras, google the name of the webcam and linux and/or Ubuntu. You may find that there is either a driver available, or advice on getting your webcam working.
(Assuming that you can get /Cheese or Luvcview to work you have got compatible drivers for the webcam.)
When you install the adobe flash into Mozilla try using the version from adobe themselves rather than the open source version. I would put more detailed instructions on doing this here, but for the life of me I can't remember how I did this, it did involve several installations of Ubuntu.
Lastly the version of Adobe flash that is installed has a bug with the SH chatroom. When you click on the cam icon it should ask you if you want to allow access to the webcam, but it doesn't (the icon just flashes and does nothing). You need to set the Adobe privacy settings. Assuming that you have tried to get in the chat room go to
Now set the the privileges to 'always ask'. Then click the 'Website Privacy Settings panel' (look to the left of the page ....). Set ' ' to always allow.
I have found that this has been a problem with using Mozilla on Vista as well btw. I hope this helps. If you still have problems by all means give us a shout.
Robert
Thanks Robert that was a good help. Still haven't fixed the problem, but at least now I know where to look.
Nobby
