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. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
