[Ekiga-list] a few problems with 3.0.1

[Palo S. <palos post sk>]

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. 
...)

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)

3. Microphone does not work with \"Default (PTLIB/ALSA)\",
however it works with \"HDA Intel (PTLIB/ALSA)\" 
specified...

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?)

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.

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!

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?



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