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EeePC shipped with Skype 1.4 which doesn’t support any video. Before I could use the EeePC’s webcam I had to update Skype and activate the camera. The following is a solution I once found on the eeeuser.com forum and works quite well for me:

• open terminal
• wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-xandros
• sudo su
• dpkg -i skype-debian_2.0.0.43-1_i386.deb
• cd /usr/bin
• wget http://berkus.madfire.net/eeecamtray.gz
• gunzip eeecamtray.gz
• chmod +x eeecamtray
• start eeecamtray
  if “segmentation fault” error occurs, try starting camera software, skype and then reboot
• pico /usr/bin/startsimple.sh
• scroll down until you see the line “wapmonitor &”, insert new line
  eeecamtray &
• save, exit, done

Tags: EeePC

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