On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 20:51 +0000, Scott van Looy wrote: > Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly: > > > 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. > > Stop with the FUD. Get the correct kernel module for your cam (most are > available from ATrpms and other places if they're not included already) > and then load kopete. Worked first time with my ancient Intel Create and > Share camera... > ARGH! If the two of you would have taken the time to read the thread instead of playing "who's the biggest jack-ass" you'd notice that: A. This has nothing to do with the kernel module - in both cases (Mine and the OP) the webcam works just fine under non-kopete applications. B. There's a bug in Kopete that breaks the MSN accept/reject webcam cycle. C. At least in my case, kopete freezes out from time to time once the webcam is active. As as I said up the thread, my webcam works just fine under both amsn and mplayer. Once I'll have some free time I'll open a BZ in kde.org and try to help them sort this problem out. Geez! - Gilboa
