After wrestling with trying to get pidgin to do GoolgleTalk video chat, and further attempts with the GoogleTalk plugin with Firefox, all with very little success, I thought I'd try out ekiga.
On two different machines (one laptop, one desktop, both 32-bit), with two different webcams (Logitec and Microsoft) and different sound cards, fresh installs of SL 6.0 + all the latest updates (ekiga-3.2.6-3.el6.i686), ekiga doesn't seem to be able to find any sound or video devices. The only options I get for audio devices is "SILENT" and the only option I get for video is "Moving Logo". Running ekiga with debug output just shows that it's detecting SILENT and Moving Logo when I click detect devices. On both machines both cameras work (tested with cheese) and the audio works fine with a variety of applications (including, sort of, kind of, pidgin). I gotta believe this isn't as broken as it seems to be and I'll probably slap my forehead when I see what I'm doing wrong, but right now I don't see it and googling all over the place hasn't helped. My thanks for any advice... - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. - Vernon Saunders' Law NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information, or information otherwise protected from disclosure by law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, disclosure, copying, dissemination or distribution of this message or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please contact the sender immediately by reply email and destroy this message, including all attachments, and any copies thereof.
