Friends:
I now have a Logitech Communicate MP 5500 Webcam I am using with my Acer Aspire AMD 64-bit Turion Laptop w/ 1 GB of RAM. I used EasyCam to install the drivers and it works fine with cheese and works fine with both Skype and Ekiga in the test modes. However during a call the video (I am transmitting) goes to snow and a green bar across the bottom and / or top. The audio works fine and the received audio and video works fine. I have surfed and tried several ideas such as fakegstreamer (wouldn't compile for me -- maybe a 64-bit issue.) I tried changing gstreamer-properties and it didn't help. The other possible solution I found was a compatibility layer thing but is not in the hardy repos -- only intrepid or better. I installed Skype from the medibuntu repos. The attempted video conference is with my folks and they are running a 64-bit AMD dual core machine with 3 GB RAM and same camera -- I installed 64-bit jaunty beta (ext4) for them a while back. Since they had to install a replacement hard drive for one that had gone bad anyway, I figured I might as well install jaunty since the OS needed to be reinstalled anyway and all works fine on their end (both audio and video simultaneously). Another attempted video conference was with my father on his eeepc 900G running 32-bit hardy with the custom kernel with all of the needed preloaded webcam and wireless drivers. Any suggestions other than install jaunty on my Acer Aspire? (I don't get my kicks out of reinstalling my OS every six months -- no offense to anyone who is into that.) I also tried Ekiga, but was never able to successfully log on. It indicated registration failed -- forbidden. Thanks friends. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
