On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 18:31:56 Natalie Hooper wrote:
> My guess would be nvidia, as it's a video driver so it could impact on
> whether a camera is found or not (if driver doesn't recognise your
> camera anymore for example or if driver sends to Skype some
> incompatibility signals).
Well after nearly two weeks there are more messages all over the internet about
problems
with Skype. Some are Windows too, some are as I described and some are
definitely related to
the Nvidia proprietary driver.
At the time this thread was live, I tried removing the Nvidia proprietary
driver. This didn't fix
my Skype video problem but it did give me poor screen resolution, so I
reinstalled the Nvidia
proprietary driver and put up with it.
Today, Kubuntu 13.04 was offered, so I did the upgrade and restarted the
machine. Overall,
there are some reasonable updates, but now I have no Skype at all. It's a
known fault with
13.04 and this one is definitely to do with Nvidia proprietary driver.
Since I can't live with the rubbish screen resolution, I'd like to try rolling
Skype back to an
earlier version, which is alleged to work. The trouble is that the various
pages I've found just
say to do just that without any guidance on what to do.
Any thoughts.
If all else fails, I'll take up Chris's kind offer of the binaries, but I'm not
sure what to do with
them either at the moment.
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