New Install Edgy

[Andrew Mahoney]

John Dangler wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 01:17 -0500, Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
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>> John Dangler wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> lsmod only shows pwc as being loaded ( I can attach my lsmod list if
> you'd care to see it)
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>>> 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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The pwc driver module is broke in edgy but there are instructions to 
build a working one  
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam#head-836881f8aaa64508507ce1f2091b24b8aead02cb

Andrew Mahoney