[cwelug] Re: Skype problem on 64-bit Hardy

[Robert & Janet Bennett]

Thanks for both responses from Robert and Mike to upgrade to jaunty.  I already have /home on a separate partition. Bob Nelson tried a Jaunty Live CD on this laptop for me at our last meeting and my Broadcom wireless didn't work any longer.  It took me months to get it working under Hardy -- finally did using Ndiswrapper and wicd. Frankly, I was hoping to wait unitl the next LTS to upgrade. My father is running Hardy (custom kernel) on his eeepc and his Skype runs fine.  I may upgrade to Jaunty, but I will probably wait a few more weeks until they get the soft lockup when deleting files ext4 bug resolved. Thanks and anymore suggestions would be much appreciated especially if they involve a fix or workaround on Hardy. Best Regards, Robert Bennett Robert Citek wrote: Before you repartition and install, you could give 9.04 a whirl from the LiveCD first just to be sure Ekiga works. Regards, - Robert On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Mike Bigalke <mikeb2g...@gmail.com> wrote: Under Hardy Heron 8.04, I had the same problem with Ekiga.  It would never let me log in either.  My only suggestion is to repartition your hard drive so that home is on a separate partition, and just go ahead and upgrade to 9.04.  Ekiga works fine in 9.04, for me at least. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Robert & Janet Bennett <jlrbenn...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: Friends: I now have a Logitech Communicate MP 5500 Webcam I am using with my Acer Aspire AMD 64-bit Turion Laptop w/ 1 GB of RAM. I used EasyCam to install the drivers and it works fine with cheese and works fine with both Skype and Ekiga in the test modes.  However during a call the video (I am transmitting) goes to snow and a green bar across the bottom and / or top.  The audio works fine and the received audio and video works fine.  I have surfed and tried several ideas such as fakegstreamer (wouldn't compile for me -- maybe a 64-bit issue.)  I tried changing gstreamer-properties and it didn't help.  The other possible solution I found was a compatibility layer thing but is not in the hardy repos -- only intrepid or better.  I installed Skype from the medibuntu repos. The attempted video conference is with my folks and they are running a 64-bit AMD dual core machine with 3 GB RAM and same camera -- I installed 64-bit jaunty beta (ext4) for them a while back.  Since they had to install a replacement hard drive for one that had gone bad anyway, I figured I might as well install jaunty since the OS needed to be reinstalled anyway and all works fine on their end (both audio and video simultaneously).  Another attempted video conference was with my father on his eeepc 900G running 32-bit hardy with the custom kernel with all of the needed preloaded webcam and wireless drivers. Any suggestions other than install jaunty on my Acer Aspire?  (I don't get my kicks out of reinstalling my OS every six months -- no offense to anyone who is into that.) I also tried Ekiga, but was never able to successfully log on.  It indicated registration failed -- forbidden. Thanks friends. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---