Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga on RedHat/ScientificLinux 6.0

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

On 01/04/11 00:38, Bluejay Adametz wrote:
> After wrestling with trying to get pidgin to do GoolgleTalk video
> chat, and further attempts with the GoogleTalk plugin with Firefox,
> all with very little success on Scientific Linux 6.0 (clone of RedHat
> EL6), I thought I'd try out ekiga.
>
> On two different machines (one laptop, one desktop, both 32-bit), with
> two different webcams (Logitec and Microsoft) and different sound
> cards, ekiga-3.2.6-3.el6.i686), ekiga doesn't seem to be able to find
> any sound or video devices. The only options I get for audio devices
> is "SILENT" and the only option I get for video is "Moving Logo".
> Running ekiga with debug output just shows that it's detecting SILENT
> and Moving Logo when I click detect devices.
>
> On both machines both cameras work (tested with cheese) and the audio
> works fine with a variety of applications (including, sort of, kind
> of, pidgin).
>
> I found this bug report against EL6, suggesting that RedHat doesn't
> have a lot of interest in looking at this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666256

See the comment I posted on that bug.

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Eugen