Re: [Ekiga-list] additions to wiki

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

Hi,

Palo S. wrote:
> Yesterday I reported here a few issues I had with 3.0.1
> and it turned out that some of them were related to
> the compile time configuration. I thought it may be a good
> idea to add this information to wiki (faq or additional
> information)?
>
> 1. The problem with webcam not working has been solved
> by using --enable-v4l for ptlib configure script. THere
> is a lot of v4l only webcams which simply would not work
> with default ptlib configuration so this option is 
> essential for these

I modified two pages on wiki about this issue (see 
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Special:Recentchanges).  Maybe disabling 
it by default is not in the end such a good idea...

> 2. The problem with missing presence indication has
> been solved by installing expat-devel (expat is an
> XML parser and the header files were required so that
> ptlib/opal can use vxml which seems to be required for
> presence indication). This is even less obvious than
> the previous v4l case and I was not able to find this 
> information anywhere, including nobody suggesting this 
> in Ekiga list. 
> (Eugen, is this your problem too or is your presence
> indication problem caused by something else?)

libexpat1-dev is in the Build-Depends field for debian (ubuntu too I 
suppose) packages.  I have just added it too to the wiki.

Cheers,
--
Eugen