Kopete & video

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 23:17:16 UTC 2007


On 18/01/07, Keith Powell <keith at keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk> 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 at tiscali.co.uk> 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

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