I got a new Acer Aspire netbook yesterday. When I tried to enable webcam through the messenger(which comes with default installation), the webcam-menu items are appeared to be disabled.

But when I clicked on the Webcam icon directly from the ‘FUN’ directory, i got the camera working and I took few snaps also. I am not sure why cant I use the camera from chat window ?

I am new to Linux and any help appreciated..

Thank you very much