On 2/23/09, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Fernando ApesteguĂa
<fernando.apesteguia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/23/09, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Thomas Cameron wrote:
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> > > Howdy -
> > >
> > > I travel a pretty fair amount - over 115 nights in hotels in 2008.
> > >
> > > I use Skype on Linux (both Fedora and RHEL) and I would love to be
able
> > > to use the web cam feature so I can see my kids before they go to bed.
> > >
> > > Anyone got a known good web cam for this? I've never owned a web cam
so
> > > this is completely new territory for me.
>
> Be aware that even in the case that the webcam is supported, Skype for
> Linux is not well supported. In my case, Logitech QuickCam for
> Notebooks works perfectly with Fedora 9, but with Skype when I try to
> activate the webcam, the program aborts without any hints about the
> problem.
>
>
Skype does not support v4l2.
Maybe if you install libv4l-0.5.8-1.fc10.i386 (it has to be the 32 bit
version)
and run (using a bash shell)
# to have a v4l interface on v4l2 devices
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /opt/skype
it will work. That is what I do with my A4tech PK-935.
Ummm, thanks for the workaround. I will try it as soon as possible and
I will post the results. Too bad skype itself doesn't say anything but
'Aborted'.
Thanks!
--
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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