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Comment 4 for bug 303755

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Craig Gilding (slasherx2) wrote : Re: Web cam won't work in Interpid, worked in previous Ubuntu versions

ls /dev | grep video gives;

video0

mplayer /dev/video gives;

MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /dev/video.
File not found: '/dev/video'
Failed to open /dev/video.

Exiting... (End of file)

Yes, I use Cheese, although, I tried to setup my web cam with kopete and amsn but they wouldn't have it.