Fixed the problem for me, cam is working in Skype now. We stand by our principles of breakthroughs in design, and roll out the amazing gaming gear like motherboards, graphics cards, laptops and desktops. I'll state how right now, okay, for further reference if anyone has this issue and when they go to the video options in Skype and the webcam has a bunch of funky characters. As a world leading gaming brand, MSI is the most trusted name in gaming and eSports. The locale settings don't seem to change when I try to change them as instructed on the wiki, they defy the /etc/nf file and stay what they are as above.Īlright, I've managed to fix it on my own. The output of 'locale' in a terminal for me is: Apparently the issue was caused by their locale not being set to a UTF-8 locale. It works everywhere else but Skype and this wasn't an issue with any other distro (Which is understandable) - Any possibility that I'm missing a driver?**Įdit: I found an older forum post from somebody having this same issue in 2013 ( ), the whole thing seems to describe my issue almost perfectly. The first way is with the Fn key shortcut (usually Fn + F6 ). In most MSI gaming notebooks, there are two ways to toggle the webcam on/off. You need to turn the webcam on, then it's driver will appear. This is the way your notebook is supposed to work. There must be some way to get it to work in Skype. The webcam driver will not appear in the Windows Device Manager when the webcam is turned off. Do you think it could be some sort of driver issue? It's a Lifecam HD-3000 and the few sources I've visited say specifically it doesn't support v4l2. I changed the 'dir' to lib64 but still no beans. Now when I login with face recognition the Skype video chat malfunctions and gives me a web cam busy with. The whole transparency thing was to blame on that last line, but I'm not using Compiz so I shouldn't have to use that in the first place. I have Dell webcam software for windows 7 64 bit.

Is there a specific place I should place it in there to prevent this?***Įdit: On further inspection this solution does not work, I found the wiki article you were referring to as well. Alright, so adding those lines to the last parts of /etc/profile seems to break XFCE's transparency effects that I've got on.

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