On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:16 PM, dave <dave.lil...@clear.net.nz> wrote: > 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. >
Dropping the linux version would be great as that would open the DMCA back door to maintain compatibility. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
