On Thursday 17 July 2008, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > Am Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:13:29 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Emanoil > > > > Kotsev: > > > What kind of video card and video driver are you > > > > using. May be it's > > > > > related to my similar problem using ATI or NVidia > > > > proprietary drivers. > > > > An Nvidia Gforce2 on one system and a ATI card on the other > > system. > > Both with commercial OpenGL enabled drivers. > > Yes, I have exactly the same experience with skype with both ATI and NVidia > cards and the commercial drivers. Basically what happens is that after > starting a video conference it slows down and hangs after a while, forcing > me to kill and restart skype. I read that there is a known problem with ATI > (a memory leak but don't remember if it was a Skype problem or ATI) also no > idea when it will be fixed and at which side. I don't have access on daily > basis to the PC with the ATI card, but I have replaced the Nvidia > proprietary driver with the free NV one and skype is working fine. > Unfortunately this is at the cost of the nice 3D GL support (googleearth > and other apps are not working), so I am really thinking of buying an Apple > PC and solving all of the issues :-( dam it I need few things to work and. > As this is not the only thing that's bugging me in linux I'm getting more > disappointed, though I really love it. I've been using it since 1998 and I > think it was more simple and more stable at what it claimed to can do.
In 1998 you obviously didn't have Skype issues, as there was no Skype at all. Just uninstall Skype and you'll get back to your 1998 stability :-) > If someone has a solution and a proof for the oposite please you're > welcome. we can move this discussion also to another place as I don't think > this is the proper place for it. > > > Do you really think this may be a problem? What kind of > > problem did you > > have and how did you solve them? > > Just change the line in the xorg.conf file > > Driver "nvidia" to > Driver "nv" > > It might be also necessary to change few other things but for me changing > this line worked, so now video skyping is fine ;-) > > > Video playback works well in both systems. And I could > > receive the > > video from the remote skype. > > Yes it is the same behaviour as I had. If I send skype video it works and > If I receive it works too, but as soon as both parts send skype video it > breaks - SH...T! > > Hope this helps but I'm getting a little bit angry You can't blame Linux as a whole because proprietary software vendors ship broken products. That's just not fair. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
