Minor issues: Gaim ATI webcam camera scanner etc.

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I have a few small things that I'm wondering if other people have...

Gaim:
VERY slow to restart after a saved session--if I don't click the  
splashscreen off, it will sit there for about 2 minutes before gaim  
finally loads up? I have deleted my /home/user/.gaim folder, to make sure  
there wasn't anything weird in it--but I still have this problem (whereas  
all my other programs start up real fast--like the music player and system  
monitor). Anyone else experiencing anything similar?

ATI Radeon 9500pro:
Still really slow performance on glxgears (I followed the wiki faq).  
Should fglrx show up in my loaded modules? It's not there...

Logitech Quickcam web:
Anyone else have one of these? Any luck getting it working in  
gnomemeeting? What's the trick?

Sony DSC-U20 (digital camera):
It is auto detected, and then the camera program pops up, and says the  
camera must be in ptp mode (if it were in ptp mode, it wouldn't auto  
detect)--even if I do put it into ptp mode with the program running, it  
won't work. My suggestion--take the Sony Cybershot U20 out of the list of  
working cameras, so that it will just open as a USB mass storage device  
(when I disable the camera auto-launcher, it just opens the camera  
directly). **Should I make a bug report on this?**

Artec 48U USB scanner not detected:
Any advice on how to get it working? (I have read that it is Linux  
compatible).

And of course bug 1943 :(   **does the patch actually fix the problem? I  
wasn't sure how to use it.**

Most of these (other than b1943) are VERY minor issues, but they are  
troublesome nonetheless ;)

As I've said before, thanks to the people on the mailing list, and thanks  
a LOT to the developers of Ubuntu! I hope hope hope that this project  
succeeds!

--Dean