On Sunday 13 November 2011 16:06:47 Mario Storti wrote: > I have Fedora 16, and my problem is that I can't run Skype neither > Google-Talk Plugin for videoconferences. Skype simply crashes > [snip] > > And Google-Talk also doesn't start, it offers me to install the plugin > for chat and video, but in fact I have it installed and I think that > it is the latest version. > Name : google-talkplugin > Version : 2.1.6.0 > > The most amazing thing is that I can run OK both Skype and > Google-Talkplugin UNDER OTHER USER IN THE SAME MACHINE (my user is > `mstorti', and I created another `mstorti2' just to try things). Right > now my workaround is to switch to user `mstorti2' each time I have a > videoconf, but it is getting too annoying!! :-( This should be a clue that there is some stale/incompatible config file in your home directory, from previous version of Fedora. You want to backup and delete/rename relevant config files, and let the software recreate them. The key here is to figure out *which* config files are the problem. > Also I can say that I used Skype/Google-Talkplugin without problems > before, I think that something was messed up with some upgrade almost > 6 months ago (perhaps when upgrading to Fedora 15 or near). This means that there are no hardware/driver problems. > I think it is a problem of configuration of either the camera of the > audio, but > > * I have audio OK, for instance in Amarok or Firefox/Youtube > * I can record audio in Audacity > * I test my camera in System Settings -> Multimedia -> Phonon -> Video > Recording and it seems OK. > > The only conflict that I note is that when I start a video on YouTube > I can't hear at the sometime music from Amarok for instance. (It's > probably useless anyway, but I report this because normally I could to > that before all this problem started). This is *not* proper behavior. Pulseaudio should mix audio signals from all sources. You *are* using pulseaudio, right? > I am sometimes tempted to do a fresh install of Fedora from scratch, > but I'm somewhat lazy because I have a lot of packages locally > installed (I'm using this system since 2007) and I'm skeptic that it > will help. If just changing the user helps, the complete fresh reinstall will definitely eliminate the problem. But I think it's an overkill. You just want to recreate your local user's config files, that's all. HTH, :-) Marko _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
