Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote:
Hello all,
Back in time I switched from -release to -current, but I'm installing
from snapshots. I saw the announce about uvideo stuff and I am very
interested about this that's why I installed the most recent snapshot
for testing. The date of the snapshot is 19-June, I also proceeded to
install some packages to test the video camera. One package people
speak about is ekiga. And here is the surprise: a lot of unexpected
errors on install using pkg_add: "Can't install <package...>: Can't
resolve <lib...>.
Of course ekiga is highly dependent of gnome stuff, so you get a lot
of install. First errors are encountered on cairo and pongo stuff,
related to gnome.
I tried to install gnome-session all together, but the errors are present.
Snapshots of packages in my understanding are provided for convenience
and are not well synchronized. If you are using a snapshot I would
stick with ports. There is no guaranties that
even than everything will work perfect but it might like in my case:-)
I would not expect at this point for Ekiga to recognize that you
have a USB camera even if your camera is supported by uvideo driver. I
tried to test 2 very cheap USB cameras that I have.
They are according to some documents are UVC devices which is the only
type of USB cameras that OpenBSD is supporting. They were not
recognized by kernel but I was not to optimistic anyway. Unless you
camera is listed
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/
I would not expect too much. You can also look for Windows Vista
complaint cameras because it looks like those are UVC complaint.
To be honest with you I didn't particularly like the tone of your
message and I am not even developer. If you are testing something
be patient and be ready for failures. If you just want things to work
stick with 4.3 release which is well tested.
If you need VoIP with video your best bet is Linux.
As far as I know Ekiga with video can work on FreeBSD if you have
Philips chip-set camera. Even then you need to make some custom patches.
I personally tested Ekiga and Skype (which is not a SIP phone) with
video on Ubuntu, CentOS, and OpenSUSE and things were working as expected.
Kind Regards,
Predrag
Don't bother to tell about relation from kernel and glibc , I waited
for the packages to be close to the kernel compilation date. IT should
work. I don't complain, but what I can do. I am not sure about a
diagnose, I think The packages are broken. But I'm not an expert and I
don't want to make stupid appreciation on others people great work.
I can send the exact errors. It will be copy by hand, since my OBSD
computer is almost not installed, without X. Please send and idea, am
I doing something wrong ?
The other way will be to use anonymous cvs and compile everything from
scratch, but I'm not sure about this. Is the snapshot a reliable stuff
or not ?
Thanks
