Re: [expert] Gnomemeeting and Pixelview PlayTV Pak camera

2003-11-19 Thread et
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 07:50 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have Pixelview PlayTV Pak TV tuner card which comes with camera connected to tuner card. I have to use windows for netmeeting or yahoo video conferencing because of this camera. has anybody used this camera in linux for gnomemeeting.

[expert] Gnomemeeting and Pixelview PlayTV Pak camera

2003-11-18 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have Pixelview PlayTV Pak TV tuner card which comes with camera connected to tuner card. I have to use windows for netmeeting or yahoo video conferencing because of this camera. has anybody used this camera in linux for gnomemeeting. i have mdk 9.1 in A7N8X deluxe MB and athlon 2400+ and 256

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-07 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 23:39, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 06 October 2003 07:28 pm, ed tharp wrote: I don't know if it is an issue for you, but I had to issue a couple of commands to get other permissions straight for some programs. have you tried as root with out the quotes; cd

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 06:58 am, ed tharp wrote: you are correct, that was me not paying attention very well as I copy and pasted the history from a term window... sorry for the confusion No problem - had me hoping I was missing something important though! Oh well, back to square 01

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 18:14, Ronald J. Hall wrote: So it comes down to what appears to be permissions on /dev/video0, since root can run it. I've changed it (as has Anne) umpteen times, even opening it to 777 status but no go, I've also added

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 06:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if suid would make a difference? Although, I'm using mdk9.1 on this particular machine and the only thing is, I have devfs=nomount in my lilo.conf. Other than that, all I did was urpmi the gnomemeeting packages and then I

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 07:04 pm, ed tharp wrote: who owns /dev/v4l/video? [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ ls -al /dev/video0 crw---1 darklord sys 81, 0 Jun 12 22:35 /dev/video0 I put this because there is no /dev/v4l on my system. --

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 11:51, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 05 October 2003 06:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if suid would make a difference? Although, I'm using mdk9.1 on this particular machine and the only thing is, I have devfs=nomount in my lilo.conf. Other than that,

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 06 October 2003 11:58 am, ed tharp wrote: do you have an nvidia video card? running Nvidia drivers? Yep, sure do - is that an issue? Its a Ti4200, BTW...using the latest drivers. --

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread michael
Bill Mullen said: It may be worth noting that permissions on this and many other devices are controlled by the settings within one's /etc/security/console.perms file. What is the best way to view/edit this file? I checked it out with VI, but I was wondering if there were something better

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread michael
Ronald J. Hall said: but what would suid give as an advantage over having to go to root now anyways? I mean I can su and it runs fine - just not my normal user account. Its a Logitech 3000 Quickcam (usb). Thanks. Well, as far as the suid, it would get you working without having to do

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Mullen said: It may be worth noting that permissions on this and many other devices are controlled by the settings within one's /etc/security/console.perms file. What is the best way to view/edit this file? I checked it out

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread michael
James Sparenberg said: What is the best way to view/edit this file? I checked it out with VI, but I was wondering if there were something better suited? Depends on what you like. I like VI others like Emacs... still more like kedit, gedit or some other graphical editor. It's a taste

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:09, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 06 October 2003 11:58 am, ed tharp wrote: do you have an nvidia video card? running Nvidia drivers? Yep, sure do - is that an issue? Its a Ti4200, BTW...using the latest drivers. I don't know if it is an issue for you, but I had

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 18:53, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Mullen said: It may be worth noting that permissions on this and many other devices are controlled by the settings within one's /etc/security/console.perms file.

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 06 October 2003 07:28 pm, ed tharp wrote: I don't know if it is an issue for you, but I had to issue a couple of commands to get other permissions straight for some programs. have you tried as root with out the quotes; cd /etc/security/ chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 06 October 2003 02:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, as far as the suid, it would get you working without having to do ´su´ everytime. Is it a good answer? No. I have a Logitech quickcam as well (I don´t know about the 3000 part), and my setup consisted of pluging it in. The

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 4:15 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I´ve setup gnomemeeting on my computer and I´ve been trying to test it by connecting to my in-laws´ computer running netmeeting. Everything seems to be configured and working correctly. When I connect, it lasts anywhere from 1

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread michael
Anne Wilson said: We are not having much success with GnomeMeeting. It's worth signing up for their list, though. The traffic is light, but on-topic - maybe 5 or 6 a day average. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anne I have done as you said, and someone is trying to help me now. Thanks Anne! --

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 6:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson said: We are not having much success with GnomeMeeting. It's worth signing up for their list, though. The traffic is light, but on-topic - maybe 5 or 6 a day average. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anne I have done as you

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread michael
Anne Wilson said: I found that I could run satisfactorily as root, but not as user. I changed permissions as directed, but to no avail. (Also msec kept changing the permisisons back.) The end result was that the people who had tried to help me came to the conclusion that devfs was the

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson said: I found that I could run satisfactorily as root, but not as user. I changed permissions as directed, but to no avail. (Also msec kept changing the permisisons back.) The end result was that the people who

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 15:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson said: I found that I could run satisfactorily as root, but not as user. I changed permissions as directed, but to no avail. (Also msec kept changing the

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 8:56 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 15:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson said: I found that I could run satisfactorily as root, but not as user. I changed permissions as directed,

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread michael
Ronald J. Hall said: I also turn devfs(d) off and thats not the problem here. I'm still showing the same problems that Anne has - I can run Gnomemeeting perfectly as root, but not as user. :-( What exactly is it doing when you say you can't run it as normal user? -- Michael Holt Snohomish,

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 05 October 2003 03:56 pm, ed tharp wrote: have you ever tried to see what error messages you get starting it from the cli? Yep, sure have - here is what it gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ gnomemeeting Literally that, and nothing else. :-) However, starting it in gui mode does

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread michael
Ronald J. Hall said: Yep, sure have - here is what it gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ gnomemeeting Literally that, and nothing else. :-) However, starting it in gui mode does give an error: Error while opening video device /dev/video0 The chosen Video Image will be transmitted during

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 18:14, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 05 October 2003 03:56 pm, ed tharp wrote: have you ever tried to see what error messages you get starting it from the cli? Yep, sure have - here is what it gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ gnomemeeting Literally that,

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 18:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronald J. Hall said: Yep, sure have - here is what it gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ gnomemeeting Literally that, and nothing else. :-) However, starting it in gui mode does give an error: Error while opening video

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 18:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronald J. Hall said: Yep, sure have - here is what it gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ gnomemeeting Literally that, and nothing else. :-) However, starting it in gui mode does give an error: Error while opening video

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 15:14, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 05 October 2003 03:56 pm, ed tharp wrote: have you ever tried to see what error messages you get starting it from the cli? Yep, sure have - here is what it gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ gnomemeeting Literally that,

[expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-04 Thread michael
Hey all, I´ve setup gnomemeeting on my computer and I´ve been trying to test it by connecting to my in-laws´ computer running netmeeting. Everything seems to be configured and working correctly. When I connect, it lasts anywhere from 1 to 2 minutes tops and then disconnects. Neither app

Re: [expert] Gnomemeeting?

2003-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 25 Aug 2003 10:09 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Mine is james.sys so there it's the same. diff being username. I'm also trying another source of info - an off-list conversation with a well-known name. If I get anything useful I'll pass it on. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services

[expert] Gnomemeeting?

2003-08-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Anyone on the expert list got the latest version of Gnomemeeting working with version 9.1 of Mandrake? Anne and I have been trying to get it to work - we can run it as root, but if we use our normal user accounts we get an error message saying that /dev/video0 can't be accessed. I tried

Re: [expert] Gnomemeeting?

2003-08-25 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 11:01, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Anyone on the expert list got the latest version of Gnomemeeting working with version 9.1 of Mandrake? Anne and I have been trying to get it to work - we can run it as root, but if we use our normal user accounts we get an error message

Re: [expert] Gnomemeeting?

2003-08-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 25 August 2003 11:28 am, James Sparenberg wrote: I've got it working here. Dunno what I did except install it. I've a creative webcam on it (usb) and it works fine. I do get one error when starting from the command line. (gnomemeeting:2861): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file

Re: [expert] Gnomemeeting?

2003-08-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 25 Aug 2003 7:22 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 11:28 am, James Sparenberg wrote: PS. Just curious who own video0 ... when I'm logged in it's james.sys. Here, ls -al /dev/vide0 gives this: crw---1 darklord sys 81, 0 Jun 12 22:35

Re: [expert] Gnomemeeting?

2003-08-25 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 13:04, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 25 Aug 2003 7:22 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 11:28 am, James Sparenberg wrote: PS. Just curious who own video0 ... when I'm logged in it's james.sys. Here, ls -al /dev/vide0 gives this:

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-08-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 5:27 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 03:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I see that on the GM webpages there are rpms for a version later than that included in 9.1 The packages offered are gnomemeeting-0.98.0-1js.i586.rpm

[expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
I see that on the GM webpages there are rpms for a version later than that included in 9.1 The packages offered are gnomemeeting-0.98.0-1js.i586.rpm openh323-1.12.0-1.i586.rpm pwlib-1.5.0-1.i586.rpm Has anyone installed these? Should I expect any problems? I imagine I should

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-08-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 03:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I see that on the GM webpages there are rpms for a version later than that included in 9.1 The packages offered are gnomemeeting-0.98.0-1js.i586.rpm openh323-1.12.0-1.i586.rpm pwlib-1.5.0-1.i586.rpm Has anyone installed

RE: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-06-05 Thread Guy Van Sanden
On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 3:37 pm, Guy Van Sanden wrote: That's what I thought. I'll have to look at a tv card+camcorder setup. I don't know if it'll work in your DMZ... (depends on how its Did the settings tab show the public IP of the firewall? Yes. can you netcat/telnet to

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-06-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 9:12 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 3:37 pm, Guy Van Sanden wrote: can you netcat/telnet to publicip:H323 port? Sorry - not sure what you mean by publicip:H323 port. Could you spell it out, please? With this, you can test that a lower-level

RE: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-06-05 Thread Guy Van Sanden
On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 12:39 pm, Guy Van Sanden wrote: On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 11:07 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: I don't have a webcam, I intend to use audio only. If you can use your camera in other programs it should work (if you point gnomemeeting to the correct device, and have

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-06-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 3:37 pm, Guy Van Sanden wrote: On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 12:39 pm, Guy Van Sanden wrote: On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 11:07 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: As a camera it is recognised without problems. As a video camera, though, I don't think it is. It's listed under

[expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-06-04 Thread Anne Wilson
Does anyone use GnomeMeeting? I would like some on- or off-list help with setting up. I'm having difficulty with both audio and video. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-06-04 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello Anne I'm not really using it yet, but I got as far as installing it, reading some of the documentation and checking for support on my firewall. What kind of problems are you experiencing? Are you behind a proxy/firewall, and if so, does it support H323? I read in the documentation that

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-06-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 11:07 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello Anne I'm not really using it yet, but I got as far as installing it, reading some of the documentation and checking for support on my firewall. What kind of problems are you experiencing? First, I don't think my camera can be

RE: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-06-04 Thread Guy Van Sanden
On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 11:07 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello Anne I'm not really using it yet, but I got as far as installing it, reading some of the documentation and checking for support on my firewall. What kind of problems are you experiencing? First, I don't think my

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-06-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 12:39 pm, Guy Van Sanden wrote: On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 11:07 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: I don't have a webcam, I intend to use audio only. If you can use your camera in other programs it should work (if you point gnomemeeting to the correct device, and have

[expert] GnomeMeeting video source

2003-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
I want to set up GnomeMeeting, but have a problem with the video source. I have the choice of /dev/video0 and /dev/video1, with not possibility of entering another source so far as I can see. My camera is /dev/sdb, so I presume that I somehow have to create a /dev/video0 that is linked to

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting video source

2003-04-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:06, Anne Wilson wrote: I want to set up GnomeMeeting, but have a problem with the video source. I have the choice of /dev/video0 and /dev/video1, with not possibility of entering another source so far as I can see. My camera is /dev/sdb, so I presume that I

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting video source

2003-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 3:27 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:06, Anne Wilson wrote: I want to set up GnomeMeeting, but have a problem with the video source. I have the choice of /dev/video0 and /dev/video1, with not possibility of entering another source so far as I

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting video source

2003-04-05 Thread et
On Saturday 05 April 2003 09:35 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 3:27 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:06, Anne Wilson wrote: I want to set up GnomeMeeting, but have a problem with the video source. I have the choice of /dev/video0 and /dev/video1,

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting video source

2003-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 4:07 pm, et wrote: On Saturday 05 April 2003 09:35 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 3:27 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:06, Anne Wilson wrote: I want to set up GnomeMeeting, but have a problem with the video source. I

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting video source

2003-04-05 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: I do not have any /dev/video of any sort. All ideas welcome. You might try running modprobe v4l with the cam attached; if you're running devfs, this should (IIUIC) create the /dev/videoX node(s). -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU