[cwelug] Re: Skype problem on 64-bit Hardy

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:17:36 -0700


Thanks for both responses from Robert and Mike to upgrade to
jaunty.  I already have /home on a separate partition.

Bob Nelson tried a Jaunty Live CD on this laptop for me at our last meeting
and my Broadcom wireless didn't work any longer.  It took me months to
get it working under Hardy -- finally did using Ndiswrapper and wicd.

Frankly, I was hoping to wait unitl the next LTS to upgrade.

My father is running Hardy (custom kernel) on his eeepc and his
Skype runs fine. 

I may upgrade to Jaunty, but I will probably wait a few more weeks until they get
the soft lockup when deleting files ext4 bug resolved.

Thanks and anymore suggestions would be much appreciated especially if they
involve a fix or workaround on Hardy.

Best Regards,

Robert Bennett


Robert Citek wrote: 
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.


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