On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 09:52 +0000, D Webb wrote: > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:49:42 +1300 > > Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] New User Experience > > > > Thanks for that, I'd be interested to know how you get on. Is that > Ekiga > > V2 or V3 on the Ubuntu CD? Ubuntu has an installer to put the live > CD > > onto a USB flash drive with persistent memory. If Ekiga will work of > > that, that would be very useful. > > > > I've just tried it on Debian Etch with similar results to Centos > 5.1, > > audio but no video. In fact it did not even detect the camera as a > > camera only as a USB audio device even after installing V4L2. > > > > Barf > > I'll check the version and report this after I get a chance to > see if Ekiga makes reliable connects with this Ubuntu distro, > although > I am pretty sure others here have reported on this recently. I do > wonder if your video prob is kernel config issue not related to > Ekiga. > So far, when a webcam was not detected/working with Ekiga here on my > side, it was due solely to not compiling in the kernel support for > the > webcam in the first place. I presume Ekiga has no video drivers of its > own. > As for V4L2, I do not know this even matters. The driver module for > my Philips ToUcam webcam happens to be marked for compiling in the > kernel config file by default and gets loaded automatically, but this > may > not be true for your webcam. Does any other application in your > current > Debian or Centos installs find your webcam? Can you see if the driver > module loads (lsmod)? If not, you should look into configing your > kernel > if the driver even exists in the kernel source, or search for a > download > for a driver module. Even for my ancient webcam, I prefer to download > a > more recent driver module because it offers higher resolution than > the > kernel driver that comes with my Linux Slackware distro. > > Dee > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Thanks but I've just had a look, its V2. I shall have to have play with that on a Flash Drive. Yes we USB Webcammers need our V4L and V4L2 as well as uvc. I upgraded the Debian installation to Lenny RC1 which has a 2.6.26 kernel and it now finds my Webcam which works with Cheese but not as yet with Ekiga. For the benefit of anyone following this thread Ekiga 3 works on Fedora 10. If you are running an AMD64 flavour you need to install the I386 version of 'alsa-plugins-pulseaudio' and open the appropriate ports in your firewall.
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