skype repository for fedora 9

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Mon, 19 May 2008 13:31:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Monday 19 May 2008 13:12, Roman Makurin wrote:
>> Hi All!
>>
>> Is there any repo with skype for Fedora 9?
>>
> Skype  is proprietary, so can't be in Fedora.  Does it have to be skype?
> There are other possibilities.  Take a look at ekiga, for instance.
> 
> Anne

Does video work in ekiga? I haven't tried it in F9 but it's been broken 
since about F7. At the time the developers confirmed the bug and they 
figured it must be in alsa.

Here's a summary of IM options that I've tried:

1) gaim: speaks a hundred protocols, but no voice, no video, not even file 
transfers.
2) kopete: speaks yahoo, has video, but no sound (as of F8). Go figure!
3) ekiga: segfaults when using video (on my hardware at least). 
4) skype: sound ok, video should have worked (as of F8) but didn't.

Anything that has both sound and video and actually works?