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December 4th, 2008 17:00

Mini 9 (Ubuntu) Flash Problem

My mini's web cam works great in Cheese and in the Dell video chat application.  However when I log in to tokbox.com or any other web based chat program that uses Adobe Flash for video, the web cam shows up as a device to select, but then no video is displayed.  I talked with Dell support and they told me it wasn't their job to support Flash.  I read on the Ubuntu forums that Flash 9 has this problem.  But I can't update to Flash 10 because the Dell repositories don't contain the update and the Adobe's Deb version won't install since it is i386 not lpia.  I just want to video chat in a web browser with my Windows friends...am I completely out of luck?

  • somms

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    Posted December 4th, 2008 17:00

    My mini's web cam works great in Cheese and in the Dell video chat application.  However when I log in to tokbox.com or any other web based chat program that uses Adobe Flash for video, the web cam shows up as a device to select, but then no video is displayed.  I talked with Dell support and they told me it wasn't their job to support Flash.  I read on the Ubuntu forums that Flash 9 has this problem.  But I can't update to Flash 10 because the Dell repositories don't contain the update and the Adobe's Deb version won't install since it is i386 not lpia.  I just want to video chat in a web browser with my Windows friends...am I completely out of luck?

    http://www.mydellmini.com

    May want to post your problem over at the above forum since it has quite an active Ubuntu Mini base...

  • smcvay

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    Posted December 7th, 2008 06:00

    Thanks somms!  I found the solution on the forum you suggested.  Here's the post link if others are interested.

     

  • bobdi

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    Posted December 26th, 2008 10:00

    looks like mydellmini.com is down.

     

    Does anyone else have documentation?

  • Larry R

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    Posted December 26th, 2008 13:00

    looks like mydellmini.com is down.

     

    Does anyone else have documentation?

    I just pulled up the site and from past experience with phpBB using sites, it could just be too much traffic for the connection to the MySQL server right now.