On 18/01/07, Keith Powell <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Two hours ago, I sent this message to the list. It hasn't arrived, although a second one I sent arrived within about three minutes of sending it. So here is is again, with the typing error corrected. Let us hope that this arrives! On Wednesday 17 January 2007 8:09 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 08/01/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > Dotan. I too am having problems with my Logitech Quickcam Chat. This is how I installed it. 1) Install the kernel-devel package. 2) Go to http://mxhaard/download.html and download the gspcav1-20070110.tar.gz tarball. 3 Untar it. 4) As root, in a terminal, cd to its untarred folder. 5) Type make (./configure isn't needed) 6) Type make install 7) Type modprobe gspca 8) Type modprobe snd_usb_audio 9) Reboot Others may tell you a better way, but this way has been successful with me and it is very quick to do. This has installed the webcam, and it works well in aMSN. However, although it works in kopete, I can't get kopete to actually send or receive a picture! HTH Keith
Thanks, Keith. I'm saving this email for when I install in the next few weeks. Of course I'd prefer a working Kopete, but this might be a good chance to try out the latest Gaim||Amsn if it doesn't. Dotan Cohen http://essentialinux.com/emulators.php http://liriks-song.com
