Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Gnomemeeting crashes whenever I accept an incoming call ...

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le lun 25/08/2003 à 17:11, momesana a écrit :
> Hi everybody,
> I am using gentoo linux and had installed gnomemeeting through the emerge 
> command provided by gentoo. It installed gnomemeeting 0.96. It worked fine 
> and I managed to get the Logitech Express webcam running with the quickcam.o 
> module (qc-usb 5.0), but there was a problem when I received and accpeted a 
> call.
> Gnomemeeting would simply crash. I though this may be due to the version and 
> so I installed the latest version and all accompanying libraries. Now I have 
> 0.98 installed but unfortunately the same problem persists. Sometimes I am 
> able to receive calls when the video-device is not activated but often it 
> even crashes without the webcam activated. 

That's obviously something not normal, and unreported until now.

> Do you know a soultion to this problem? Is there something wrong with the 
> module-parameters. Has anyone else the Logiteck Quickcam Express and managed 
> to get it running flawlessly?

Yes lots of people, but the driver has always been a bit buggy. However,
we first need to be sure there is a driver problem. 
* Have you tried pure audio calls without sending video at all? 
* Does video preview work?
* Does the video test work in the druid?
* Do you have kernel messages in /var/log/messages when GM crashes?
* Is it possible for you to provide me a backtrace? (when GM crashes,
don't close the popup, just find the lowest pid of GM, type in a
terminal "gdb attach that_pid", then once you get the GM prompt, just
type "thread apply all bt" and mail me the output.

> Another problem is that once I had a connection running with a netmeeting user 
> (my webcam and also its driver-module were unloaded and after many crashes it 
> just connected) I first recieved the transmitted video in good quality. After 
> about 10 - 15 it however deteriorated increasingly and after half a minute 
> the transmitted images weren't worth looking at. 
> Where is the problem?

I have no idea either, probably on his side. But I think we need to
debug problems separately.

> I would appreciate your help since I don't want to install microsoft only in 
> order to be able to do videoconferencing.
> Please send your replies to momesana yahoo de
> 

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