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

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

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?

> 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 ?

> 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.

> 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.

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