Hi Johan - have you tried joining your user to the video and audio groups? -
I use Fedora so not sure how similar it is.
David

On 10 October 2011 19:11, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> this is my first mail on this list, I hope this question is not already
> asked 10 times.
>
> I also posted on Centos6 forum and mailing list concerning this,
>
> I tested this on both 5.7 and 6.0
>
> when first installing CentOs some 6 months ago, I noticed this strange
> thing called Ekiga.
>
> Now, some guys at work use Skype and I heard that's owned by Microsoft.
> So enter James.
>
> I bought a webcam, actualy 2, to test Ekiga. Logitech Webcam c210.
> I saw this url :http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/  on this url :
> http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams
> and in short : I think I have the driver i need --V4L2-- on my Centos6
> machine.
>
> To make sure, I installed everything that came up under
>
> # yum search V4L2
> with epel testing enabled.
>
> #dmesg | tail -n15 shows :
>
> usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 12
> usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=0819
> usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=2
> usb 2-3: SerialNumber: CE6AA1D0
> usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device<unnamed>  (046d:0819)
> input: UVC Camera (046d:0819) as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/input/input13
>
> still in Ekiga i get error message ( translated from Dutch) :
>
> an error occurred with video device UVC Camera (046d:0819)
> an error occurred when opening the device
> blahblahbla
> check access rights or driver.
>
> under System - Preferences I can't find anything configurable ( is that
> even English ?)
>
> Can anyone help me configure something somewhere  or whatever is needed ?
>
> My company is about to choose a video conference system, I want it to be
> Ekiga.
>
> Thanks a million in advance
>
> James
>
>
> Opensource Software is the future.
>
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