Re: [GnomeMeeting-list]Getting started problem

[Victor di Angelo <vic2vic xs4all nl>]

On Tue, 06 Nov 2001 11:35:40 +0200
Andries Dippenaar <apj sanpeople com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
>    I'm just getting started with this whole video conferencing thing 
> on Linux having used NetMeeting and funkier stuff like ProShare et al 
> on Windows before. My setup is as follows:
>    RedHat Linux      7.1
>    XFree86 (core)    4.0.3-5
>    XFree86 (driver)  S3 Savage 1.1.15
>    Gnome (core)      1.4.0.5-ximian.5
>    Gnome (libs)      1.2.13-ximian.11
>    GnomeMeeting      0.11-2
>    pwlib             1.1.36-4
>    openh323          1.6.1-3
> 

What camera ? And are modules for camera loaded ?

> The latter three packages (RPMs) were sourced at www.gnomemeeting.org
> Apart from the three packages, are there any other dependencies or 
> stuff that I need to get this up and running? Any required XFree86 
> extensions maybe?
>    I get the following symptoms: I start up GnomeMeeting, and under 
> the Settings menu I go to "General | Device Settings" and (with the 
> defaults of Video Device=/dev/video0, Video Channel=0) click on "Video 
> Test" only to get the following error message:
>    "Impossible to open this device"
> Now I've checked that /dev/video0 exists (major 81, minor 0) and have 
> even `chmod 666' it to make sure it's a user vs root thing. No joy! Is 
> there a kernel module that needs loading or what am I missing here?
>    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks a million,
> Andries
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