Before you repartition and install, you could give 9.04 a whirl from the LiveCD first just to be sure Ekiga works.
Regards, - Robert On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
