Am Sonntag 15 März 2009 20:14:51 schrieb [email protected]:
> Hi Friends, I have a Fedora 6 installed on my laptop. My webcam giving
> black screen in SKYPE (webcam  works for Ekiga). I have installed the
> proper driver for the webcam, kindly help. Following information gives
> the details of my OS configuration:
>
> uname -a  :   Linux GPS 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Nov 21 15:12:59
> EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> lsusb :     Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0c45:627f Microdia
>
> dmesg :                 sn9c20x: Using yuv420 output format
>                          sn9c20x: No ack from I2C slave 0x30 for write
> to address 0x13
>
> SKYPE gives :
>
> Skype V4L2: Could not find a suitable capture format
> Starting the process...
> Skype Xv: Xv ports available: 17
> Skype XShm: XShm support enabled
> Skype Xv: Using Xv port 65
> Skype Xv: No suitable overlay format found
>
> The screen is black in skype. However, the webcam  works for Ekiga
> perfectly.
> Kindly let me know how to fix the problem with skype.
>
> Cheers,
> akr
>
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Please read up on libv4l and get a recent fedora which ships it.

(If you like to hang on to your old fedora this RPM should work on older 
versions too:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=93986
)

GWater

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