On Sunday 13 November 2011 16:06:47 Mario Storti wrote:
I have Fedora 16, and my problem is that I can't run Skype
neither
Google-Talk Plugin for videoconferences. Skype simply crashes
[snip]
And Google-Talk also doesn't start, it offers me to install the plugin
for chat and video, but in fact I have it installed and I think that
it is the latest version.
Name : google-talkplugin
Version : 2.1.6.0
The most amazing thing is that I can run OK both Skype and
Google-Talkplugin UNDER OTHER USER IN THE SAME MACHINE (my user is
`mstorti', and I created another `mstorti2' just to try things). Right
now my workaround is to switch to user `mstorti2' each time I have a
videoconf, but it is getting too annoying!! :-(
This should be a clue that there is some stale/incompatible config file in your
home directory, from previous version of Fedora. You want to backup and
delete/rename relevant config files, and let the software recreate them.
The key here is to figure out *which* config files are the problem.
Also I can say that I used Skype/Google-Talkplugin without problems
before, I think that something was messed up with some upgrade almost
6 months ago (perhaps when upgrading to Fedora 15 or near).
This means that there are no hardware/driver problems.
I think it is a problem of configuration of either the camera of the
audio, but
* I have audio OK, for instance in Amarok or Firefox/Youtube
* I can record audio in Audacity
* I test my camera in System Settings -> Multimedia -> Phonon -> Video
Recording and it seems OK.
The only conflict that I note is that when I start a video on YouTube
I can't hear at the sometime music from Amarok for instance. (It's
probably useless anyway, but I report this because normally I could to
that before all this problem started).
This is *not* proper behavior. Pulseaudio should mix audio signals from all
sources. You *are* using pulseaudio, right?
I am sometimes tempted to do a fresh install of Fedora from scratch,
but I'm somewhat lazy because I have a lot of packages locally
installed (I'm using this system since 2007) and I'm skeptic that it
will help.
If just changing the user helps, the complete fresh reinstall will definitely
eliminate the problem. But I think it's an overkill. You just want to recreate
your local user's config files, that's all.
HTH, :-)
Marko