On Monday 12 March 2007, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 12 March 2007, Sander Hoentjen wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 19:13 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Thanks, both Nigel and Sander. I haven't had time to look into this > > > any further today, but I'll take another look at it tomorrow. > > > > I'd be interested to hear the results when you tried my suggestions, > > because i have no idea it actually works, and if it does it might be > > worth changing in amsn, so it can be set with the gui > > Hi, Sander. Time has conspired against me, and I haven't had much time for > > this yet. However, I did try a slightly different version of your command: > ::config::setKey "webcamDevice" "/dev/webcam" > > with /dev/webcam being the symlink created through a udev rule. amsn had > no problem finding the webcam, although the webcam is now actually > at /dev/video1. Then I realised that the symlink isn't being created, > because I'm not using the same webcam, so the rule doesn't apply. Doh! I > need to do more testing on this. I'll try to get to it in the next day or > so. > Quick update - I created a new rule so that /dev/webcam is valid. This is what happened: 13:36:18] Executing : ::config::setKey "webcamDevice" "/dev/webcam" [13:36:18] /dev/webcam [13:36:21] Challenge received, answering [13:36:21] Challenge accepted [13:36:33] Catch in proc trans (MSN ): can't read "lang(MSN)": no such element in array [13:36:33] Catch in proc trans (TLS ): can't read "lang(TLS)": no such element in array [13:36:55] webcamDevice=/dev/video1:0 [13:36:55] Removed window .webcam_chooser.preview idx : 0 from windows [13:36:55] Now windows is [13:37:02] save_config: saving config for user me@xxxxxxxxxxx in /home/anne/.amsn/me_hotmail_com] [13:37:02] save_config: saving config_file. Opening of file returned : file8 [13:37:02] save_config: Config saved The 'change video settings' finds the webcam. Does that tell you what you want to know? Is this change in configuration now persistent, or do I need to do it every time? Anne
