webcam works on certain programs but only black and white

[Adduboy]

Hi I have an Acer Aspire 5051 and have installed Ubuntu 8.10....I have
installed the drivers for my webcam Microdia Sn9c201 its model and
make are 0c45 : 6260 and now it works on Mplayer output test video and
aMSN...but I only get black and white video output and also it is
detected as a webcam in Skype but does not work when i test it....what
is wrong and how can i possibly fix it?

[Brian Johnson]

The black and white issue is related to known bugs with setting
saturation. for skype make sure you are preloading libv4l properly.

[Adnan Sajad Hussein]

thank you very much, but after playing around with linux for a week...a found it to be really good but still dont think I'm ready to fully switch to it...so I'm still back to using Vista at the moment (since I got the original for free from college) only using open source software on it...I hope Linux will become much more easier to use in the future that I can finally switch over in full.