New Install Edgy

[John Dangler]

On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 01:17 -0500, Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> John Dangler wrote:
> 
> > I just got Edgy up and running on my desktop.  I have a Logitech Pro
> > 3000 webcam, which shows a grey window in both camorama and ekiga.
> > Camorama does see the camera, and ekiga configuration even allows the
> > audio input through the webcam, but both fail for the video.
> > 
> > I looked at installing easycam2, but looking in their list of known
> > cam drivers, the 3000 isn't among them, and I did read where Edgy had
> > newer drivers than Dapper (under Dapper it never worked at all, but
> > under Breezy, it did - go figure)...
> > 
> > Does anyone here have any input as to what I can try (or tweak) to get
> > this to work?
> 
> What module(s) are you currently running? I find that the newer gspca
> modules are more unstable than the older spca5xx on this box, for
> instance.
lsmod only shows pwc as being loaded ( I can attach my lsmod list if
you'd care to see it)
> 
> > O/T - I'd like to try ekiga (or wengophone), but under ekiga (unlike
> > skype), there isn't a way to search for anyone who has it running...
> > any clues about this?
> 
> Ekiga, 2.0.3+ anyway, does have a search feature but it's limited to 100
> matches. Fire it up, go to your "phone book" and enter a * in the
> bottom dialog. Should give you a list of 100 and a notice about
> "refining your search". There's a drop down that defaults to "name",
> but I believe you can search on "url" and "location" also.
Very cool.  I just need to get this cam to work, and then I'll poll and
ask someone who is on there if they could be a 'test call' for me.
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