Under Hardy Heron 8.04, I had the same problem with Ekiga.  It would never
let me log in either.  My only suggestion is to repartition your hard drive
so that home is on a separate partition, and just go ahead and upgrade to
9.04.  Ekiga works fine in 9.04, for me at least.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Robert & Janet Bennett <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>
> >
>

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