Re: [Ekiga-list] a few problems with 3.0.1

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Hi,

Julien Puydt wrote:
> Palo S. a écrit :
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I have compiled and tested 3.0.1 today and here is a few 
> > problems/comments/questions that I have.
> > The test machine was Fedora 9, 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686
> > kernel.
> >
> > 1. My webcam does not work with Ekiga 3 although it
> > works just fine with Ekiga 2 (and works fine with
> > basically any other program I tried - mplayer, vlc).
> > It is Labtec Webcam Pro using the gspca driver. I
> > think that the problem is that Ekiga detects the
> > device as V4L2, however it is V4L. It does not work
> > as V4L2 under other programs too. With Ekiga 2 I
> > could choose V4L or V4L2 as video plugin, however with Ekiga 3 this 
> > does not seem to be possible anymore and the automatic detection only 
> > provides V4L2... Any way to force V4L?
> > (error message:
> > Error while accessing video device /dev/video0
> > There was an error while opening the device. ...)
>
> Did you try installing the ptlib-plugins-v4l (or some similar name) 
> package which provides the V4L plugin driver?

Note that v4l is disabled by default in ptlib.  To enable it, execute 
"./configure --enable-v4l' in ptlib.

> > 2. The presence indication does not work for any
> > of my ekiga contacts, including echo test and
> > conference room - all are displayed without any
> > presence indication (ie the same as \"IPBX\" contacts on this 
> > screenshot: http://blog.ekiga.net/?p=61)
>
> Are your registered to ekiga.net ?

Since about 3 weeks I have the same problem: all the contact indicators 
are greyed out.  I thought that it is because ekiga developers are 
working on ekiga.net.

> > 3. Microphone does not work with \"Default (PTLIB/ALSA)\",
> > however it works with \"HDA Intel (PTLIB/ALSA)\" specified...
>
> Then that works...
>
> > 4. At opal compilation, there is a new dependency
> > which is not taken into account by configure,
> > namely swig (compilation stopped with an error message
> > and continued after I installed swig - so no big problem
> > but it should be checked by configure I believe?)
>
> No idea on this one.

I ran into the same problem.  You can uninstall swig and execute once: 
"touch src/java/java_swig_wrapper.c".  I will create a bug report for this.

> > 5. This one is just an information if somebody gets into the same 
> > issue: originally I reproducibly got a segfault if I wanted to make a 
> > call and the following error message appeared if ekiga --sync was run 
> > (followed by an attempt to make a call):
> > Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_get_depth: assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE 
> > (drawable)\' failed   
> > It turned out that this was an issue between GTK+ and KDE4 desktop 
> > efffects - after KDE4 desktop
> > effects were turned off, the problem disappared.
>
> Oohhh... that is annoying. :-/
>
> > 6. Although I did not get a chance to use video, I have noticed that 
> > the \"side by side\" view option is no longer available. Is there a 
> > plan to include it
> > again? Basically all people I talked to prefer
> > this over PIP/no local because one can both see
> > himself and it does not cut from the remote at
> > the same time - for some it was one of the \"killer features\" of 
> > Ekiga, I believe!
>
> Ok
>
> > I would be glad for any comments. Also, could a developer please let 
> > me know if (s)he thinks that any of these should be filed as a bug?
>
> I'm annoyed by point 5 -- but I'm not sure the bug is on our side.

Eugen