skype on fedora 14 x86_64

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 02/01/11 21:14, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> On 01/02/2011 07:26 PM, Darlene Wallach wrote:
>> Johan,
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Johan Scheepers<johansche at telkomsa.net>   wrote:
>>> On 01/02/2011 06:52 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Johan Scheepers<johansche at telkomsa.net>     wrote:
>>>>> Good day,
>>>>>
>>>>> Just installed skype and it is working.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can speak to otherside.
>>>>> Can see the otherside.
>>>>> Can hear the otherside.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now I would like to get a webcam going.
>>>>>
>>>> If your webcam is supported, it ought to work out of the box. It's
>>>> working for me with skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586. You can use the 'cheese'
>>>> webcam program to test if your webcam works.
>>>>
>>> Ok. Got the same skype as above.
>>> Cheese shows that the webcam can photo, record, multiple photos.
>>>
>>> Kindly explain how does it get connected to skype please.
>>> This is a learning experience to me.
>> Select options in the pull down menu or "control o" then select "video devices"
>> Select "Enable Skype Video"
>>
>> There should be a window with "test" - select test - you should see yourself.
>>
> OK.  Done all the motions as above.
> Test does not work.
> The device shown in cheese is the same as the one in skype options.
> Does this mean there is still something amiss?

What exactly happens when "Test does not work"? On my system I get a 
segmentation fault. Is that what you see as well? I can see from skype's forum 
on video that a ubuntu user on 12/26 reported this very problem.

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Erik