On Thu, 12 May 2011 20:27:21 Adrian Mageanu wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:26 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:11 +1200, Don Robertson wrote: > > > Argh - cannot get the microphone or webcam to work on Skype. > > > > > > Damn PulseAudio - er, I mean - damn Microsoft applications. > > > > I finally managed to get skype via a headset, and usual audio via > > analogue headphones up and running under 10.04 Ubuntu - although I don't > > use a cam. Can't scare the punters, you know! > > > > What distro?? I'll send you to Adrian if it's Fedora.. > > > > Steve > > The version that works for me on Fedora with (almost) no problems is > skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm > > I had it ported up to Fedora 14 from each Fedora release and since I > installed it on F14 last January it crashed only twice. And I think one > time it was my fault because I unplugged the webcam before shutting down > skype - easier than to mute the mic on it every time. > > >From time to time I download a new version from skype's website as it > > becomes available. I had problems with each and every one of them and so > I kept going back to that one. > > This latest version - skype-2.2.0.25-fedora.i586.rpm - had the strangest > effects of all: after about 1h of leaving it on the desktop interface - > Gnome - would not take mouse clicks from any of the 11 buttons on my > mouse (I know, but I like it...). Oh, and the video still had to be > enable via > > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so > > So I had to "rpm -e" it into oblivion and re-install that "working" > version. After that everything got back to normal, I have a working > version of skype and my mouse can click-talk happily with the desktop. > > I look forward to see what the evolution will be for the video > chat/conference options for Linux after the purchase of Skype by > Microsoft. Interesting times ahead... > > Adrian >
Me thinks MS just might kill the Linux version - others may have differing opinions on this. MY only reason for saying this is that to what advantage to MS does it give them to keep skype development going for a free OS? either that or they'll simply change things so that the linux based debs, rpms etc beging to become incompatible with their newer api's etc. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
