Webcam shows gray box instead of image on a G455 using Ubuntu 10.10

I upgraded from ubuntu 10.04 and my webcam started going in and out showing a gray box, I updated my xorg and now the gray box is always there. If I right click where the image is supposed to be I can see a fragment of the image but nothing more and I hear a low ringing sound.
I had a similar issue with my media players(gray box not the low ringing sound), I fixed that by changing the video codecs.
I don't know how to do that with a webcam that's built in.
anyone know how to fix this or trouble shoot to be sure this is the actual problem?

updating camera drivers may help you to solve the issue.
http://forum.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/webcam-on-U330/m-p/95630#M825

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