On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 20:51 +0000, Scott van Looy wrote:
Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:
On 08/01/07, Anne Wilson cannewilson@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
It's very frustrating. Two or three years back I had gnomemeeting working. I used it for a linux to linux and for a linux to windows session (netmeeting). I haven't needed it for a long time, so I've been quite shocked to see how hard it is now.
I'm also a bit shocked. I jump around from distro to distro, and I haven't had a problem with Kopete in a long time. My webcam is a Logitech Quikcam. On my current distro, Kubuntu, I just plugged it in and it works. I've got Kopete 0.12.3 on KDE 3.5.5. I'm actually considering whether this month It'll be FC6 or (don't hate me) the latest SUSE, which I haven't tried in a while. If webcam support under Fedora is that bad, then that'll be a big problem for me. My first daughter was born two weeks ago, and the grandparents don't live in Israel. So there's been quite a bit of webcamming going on in our household as of late.
Stop with the FUD. Get the correct kernel module for your cam (most are available from ATrpms and other places if they're not included already) and then load kopete. Worked first time with my ancient Intel Create and Share camera...
ARGH!
If the two of you would have taken the time to read the thread instead of playing "who's the biggest jack-ass" you'd notice that: A. This has nothing to do with the kernel module - in both cases (Mine and the OP) the webcam works just fine under non-kopete applications. B. There's a bug in Kopete that breaks the MSN accept/reject webcam cycle. C. At least in my case, kopete freezes out from time to time once the webcam is active.
As as I said up the thread, my webcam works just fine under both amsn and mplayer. Once I'll have some free time I'll open a BZ in kde.org and try to help them sort this problem out.
Geez! - Gilboa