After wrestling with trying to get pidgin to do GoolgleTalk video chat, and further attempts with the GoogleTalk plugin with Firefox, all with very little success on Scientific Linux 6.0 (clone of RedHat EL6), I thought I'd try out ekiga.
On two different machines (one laptop, one desktop, both 32-bit), with two different webcams (Logitec and Microsoft) and different sound cards, ekiga-3.2.6-3.el6.i686), ekiga doesn't seem to be able to find any sound or video devices. The only options I get for audio devices is "SILENT" and the only option I get for video is "Moving Logo". Running ekiga with debug output just shows that it's detecting SILENT and Moving Logo when I click detect devices. On both machines both cameras work (tested with cheese) and the audio works fine with a variety of applications (including, sort of, kind of, pidgin). I found this bug report against EL6, suggesting that RedHat doesn't have a lot of interest in looking at this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666256 I tried building Ekiga 3.2.7 from sources, but that exhibits the same problem, so I'm guessing that this is a problem with the Linux distribution. That said, does anyone have any ideas for getting this working? Thanks! - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 Dread is a powerful force. The problem with dread is that it leads to terrible decision-making. - Scott Berinato NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information, or information otherwise protected from disclosure by law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, disclosure, copying, dissemination or distribution of this message or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please contact the sender immediately by reply email and destroy this message, including all attachments, and any copies thereof. _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
