JohnMinson wrote: See the man page on hijacking threads. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com&gt; "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

On 23/02/09 14:34, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: [snip] What version of Skype do you have? The one I've got (version 2.0.0.72) does not seem to have any video support at all. [snip] -- Erik.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Erik P. Olsen <epodata(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Maybe I did hijacked in first place, I'm not blaming you. :) Skype has video support in Linux (well... it's not very well supported actually) but I did manage to see other people.

On 23/02/09 22:41, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: I don't think I hijacked the subject. It is about webcam recommendation for Skype and I don't believe that Skype for linux has video support, so AFAICT no webcam can be recommended at all. Or am I totally wrong? -- Erik.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Fernando Apesteguía < fernando.apesteguia(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Skype does not support v4l2. Maybe if you install libv4l-0.5.8-1.fc10.i386 (it has to be the 32 bit version) and run (using a bash shell) # to have a v4l interface on v4l2 devices LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /opt/skype it will work. That is what I do with my A4tech PK-935. -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ

On 2/23/09, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote: Be aware that even in the case that the webcam is supported, Skype for Linux is not well supported. In my case, Logitech QuickCam for Notebooks works perfectly with Fedora 9, but with Skype when I try to activate the webcam, the program aborts without any hints about the problem. You could try another choice like Ekiga, although I'm afraid to say it doesn't reach the quality in video than Skype does (I can receive video with Skype) Another option could be AMSN. I got the webcam working with this one as well. HTH

Hi, I think you need to configure this in /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/. This is an excerpt of that directory when I do an ls -al of that directory and my primary device is ifcfg-eth1 and aliases are ifcfg-eth1:0 to ifcfg-eth1:6: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 30 18:33 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Feb 13 18:03 .. -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 274 Nov 11 2007 ifcfg-eth0 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 271 Nov 11 2007 ifcfg-eth1 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 237 Nov 11 2007 ifcfg-eth1:0 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 244 Nov 11 2007 ifcfg-eth1:1 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 239 Nov 11 2007 ifcfg-eth1:2 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 238 Nov 11 2007 ifcfg-eth1:3 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 239 Nov 11 2007 ifcfg-eth1:4 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 238 Nov 11 2007 ifcfg-eth1:5 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 238 Nov 11 2007 ifcfg-eth1:6 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 169 Nov 11 2007 ifcfg-eth2 And there are more files than these in this directory but have not included them here. Here is what is inside ifcfg-eth1. Note: I have changed the HWADDR ,DHCP_HOSTNAME and IPADDR so change this information for your network and device MAC address: # Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=none HWADDR=f0:00:ab:34:55:01 ONBOOT=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=mailserver.network.com TYPE=Ethernet IPADDR=169.255.255.4. NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=169.255.255.1 USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes And this is what is inside the ifcfg-eth1:0. Again note I have changed DHCP_HOSTNAME and IPADDR so change this information for your network: # Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) DEVICE=eth1:0 BOOTPROTO=none DHCP_HOSTNAME=dnsserver.network.com TYPE=Ethernet IPADDR=169.255.255.5 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=169.255.255.1 USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes Others network aliases are similar to ifcfg-eth1:0 other than the DEVICE, DHCP_HOSTNAME and IPADDR changes with each aliases. Also note that the HWADDR is missing from the aliases files. Here is a link I saw about this: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-creating-or-adding-new-network-alias-t... I hope this helps, Frank

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 23:41 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: The package I am running is skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586 (albeit on an F10 x86_64 box). I don't think I had to enable it as such, skype automatically found the webcam as a usb device. However, right-clicking on the skype icon and selecting 'options' shows a 'Video Devices' section. Within there there are tick-boxes to enable video, and select the video device. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: John.Horne(a)plymouth.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001

Ive just been through the same process. Go to the following link for a short list: http://www.linux-drivers.org/usb_webcams.html Cheers, James ________________________________ From: Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron(a)camerontech.com&gt; To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt; Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:25:05 PM Subject: Web cam recommendations? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Howdy - I travel a pretty fair amount - over 115 nights in hotels in 2008. I use Skype on Linux (both Fedora and RHEL) and I would love to be able to use the web cam feature so I can see my kids before they go to bed. Anyone got a known good web cam for this? I've never owned a web cam so this is completely new territory for me. - -- Thanks! Thomas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

On 2/23/09, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Ummm, thanks for the workaround. I will try it as soon as possible and I will post the results. Too bad skype itself doesn't say anything but 'Aborted'. Thanks!