On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Fernando Apesteguía < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/23/09, Rahul Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thomas Cameron wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Howdy - > > > > > > I travel a pretty fair amount - over 115 nights in hotels in 2008. > > > > > > I use Skype on Linux (both Fedora and RHEL) and I would love to be able > > > to use the web cam feature so I can see my kids before they go to bed. > > > > > > Anyone got a known good web cam for this? I've never owned a web cam > so > > > this is completely new territory for me. > > Be aware that even in the case that the webcam is supported, Skype for > Linux is not well supported. In my case, Logitech QuickCam for > Notebooks works perfectly with Fedora 9, but with Skype when I try to > activate the webcam, the program aborts without any hints about the > problem. > > Skype does not support v4l2. Maybe if you install libv4l-0.5.8-1.fc10.i386 (it has to be the 32 bit version) and run (using a bash shell) # to have a v4l interface on v4l2 devices LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /opt/skype it will work. That is what I do with my A4tech PK-935. -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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