To remove Pidgin completely you have to remove the pidgin-ppa
package (besides the pidgin package) by entering the following command in terminal:
sudo apt-get purge pidgin-ppa
This package is responsible for setting up Pidgin PPA in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list
.
To test that all Pidgin PPAs are removed type:
ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin*
It should not list any files.
I kept the AppleUSBVideoSupport from the MacOSX 10.5 that was installed originally in my MacBook 4.1 to use it in Ubuntu 11.10 64 bits. I followed the same instructions in the wiki, but got no video as well.
I noticed some facts:
- Changing the resolution in Cheese makes the image to appear.
- Using 'v4l2src device="/dev/video0" ! videoscale' on gstreamer-properties also makes its test to work.
- Skype's webcam doesn't work at all
But yesterday I finally got Skype working!!!
Remember Skype is a 32 bits application, so it depends on the package ia32-libs installed.
Create a file called skype.sh with the following contents:
#!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype
Make this file an executable. Open the menu-editor (alacarte) and edit the Skype entry to point to this script. Be happy!
I don't know what this library does, but it solved my problem. I haven't tested other applications, but I know we'll have to use the equivalent 64 bits library with 64 bits applications.
UPDATE: Just upgrade to 12.04, follow the same instructions and your iSight will work with Cheese, Skype, Empathy and Google Talk.
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You can try:
or
Worked for me.