I have an hp dv9000 and Skype properly recognizes my webcam (/dev/video1) but it doesn't seem to work. I've also run across posts in this forum of users with a working setup "nvidia+r5u870" but they all seem to state it works out of the box.
I've tested my camera as working using mplayer; it also works with openwengo. When I run the test under skype I am left with a black box and my camera doesn't appear to do any work (no light). I've attached the output of xvinfo and v4l-info. I've tested with kwin, metacity, and compiz.

I'm using nvidia-driver 100.14.19 and the r5u870 ricoh webcam driver.
The output of lsusb:


edit: Well the solution was to use gstfakevideo. It's still not too bright anyone know how to crank that up? I'm using: gstfakevideo v4l2src device=/dev/video1 ! videoscale ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink brightness=1000

Thanks.