OT: C.S's Destination.
I was asked off list: > Where are you off to? Just so you all know:- http://www.rosehearty.com/ http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?q=map+rosehearty+aberdeenshire+scotland+uk 57.698644 North 2.116241 West N.E. Aberdeenshire, Scotland. email address unchanged. Not leaving until June. And specially for the hawk-eyed puppies amongst us the font is set to be almost invisible. Arial @ 10 points. Happy now? -- With Sincerity, Christopher Sawtell
Re: skype video
On Friday 06 March 2009 13:14:58 Nick Rout wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Craig Falconer > > wrote: > > Chris - please remove this from your emails. > > > > > > > > I'm surprised no-one else has complained. > > I have, but it fell on deaf ears. OTOH folks who, for reasons beyond me, don't like a 'pretty' and individual font can always set their mail user agents to display exactly what they want. ( View -> Used Fixed Font in Kmail ) I'm sure other MUA's have something similar. My main correspondent is a person of more senior years than many if not most on this list, and she _likes_ having a font of readable size, which displays as a fake of a hand-written font. Is this ok now? If not, I'll just leave the list. I'll be leaving the country shortly, and resigning the list now as opposed to in a few weeks time is neither here nor there. Now please explain how I can set Kmail, or for that matter any other MUA, to remember that my major correspondent needs one font setting, while you folks have an apparent need for something different, 'cos I'm sure I'll not manage it. -- With Sincerity, Christopher Sawtell
Re: skype video
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Craig Falconer wrote: > Chris - please remove this from your emails. > > > > I'm surprised no-one else has complained. I have, but it fell on deaf ears.
Re: Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting reminder: Tuesday 10th March @ 7:30pm
Apologies for replying this late to this thread - however I personally intended attending next Tuesday to hear about this topic. Cheers, Roger Adrian Mageanu wrote: Hi, I received no confirmation of the booking so far, so I will take the hint and fade quietly in the background on this subject, leaving room for other topics. To those who showed interest, both on and (mostly) off list, I'm happy to continue to talk about this. Cheers, Adrian On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 07:44 +1300, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Yes, business intelligence.
Re: Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting reminder: Tuesday 10th March @ 7:30pm
Hi, I received no confirmation of the booking so far, so I will take the hint and fade quietly in the background on this subject, leaving room for other topics. To those who showed interest, both on and (mostly) off list, I'm happy to continue to talk about this. Cheers, Adrian On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 07:44 +1300, Adrian Mageanu wrote: > Yes, business intelligence. >
Re: skype video
Chris - please remove this from your emails. I'm surprised no-one else has complained. -- Craig Falconer
Re: skype video
On Friday 06 March 2009 10:37:13 Barry Marchant wrote: > anyone out there using skype? Currently when testing video under options > the webcam activates but i only get a black, or white screen, no image. > If i kill skype, then try mplayer -fps 14 tv:// i get a green screen and > the camera is not activated. Something seems to block Xv but no msgs to > indicate what. Only answer to the problem is to reboot. Have you got all the shared object libraries loaded? fyi, my skype loads all these:- ch...@imogen:~$ ldd /usr/bin/skype linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb80d9000) libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0xb7fe1000) libXv.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXv.so.1 (0xb7fdb000) libXss.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXss.so.1 (0xb7fd6000) librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb7fcd000) libQtDBus.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4 (0xb7f5f000) libQtGui.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 (0xb765c000) libQtNetwork.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4 (0xb755b000) libQtCore.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 (0xb732d000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7313000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7225000) libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb71ff000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb71f) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7092000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb6fa3000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb6f94000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6f8f000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb80bf000) libQtXml.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4 (0xb6f4b000) libaudio.so.2 => /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2 (0xb6f33000) libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb6f0d000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb6f04000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb6eeb000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb6ed5000) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb6e1e000) libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb6e14000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb6e0a000) libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb6e03000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb6d8c000) libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb6d5f000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb6d59000) libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xb6d56000) libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb6d3d000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb6d39000) libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb6ce8000) libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0xb6cb6000) libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb6c8f000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb6c8a000) ch...@imogen:~$ Do you get something like that? No undefined references anyway. -- With Sincerity, Christopher Sawtell
Re: skype video
Not sure if related, but I had a similar problem and I found in some forums (don't remember which) this solution: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /full/path/to/skype For this you have to have v4l installed. Adrian P.S. I think I found a link, see if this helps: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=502926 On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:37 +1300, Barry Marchant wrote: > anyone out there using skype? Currently when testing video under options > the webcam activates but i only get a black, or white screen, no image. > If i kill skype, then try mplayer -fps 14 tv:// i get a green screen and > the camera is not activated. Something seems to block Xv but no msgs to > indicate what. Only answer to the problem is to reboot. > > All suggestions welcome > > TIA > > Barry >
skype video
anyone out there using skype? Currently when testing video under options the webcam activates but i only get a black, or white screen, no image. If i kill skype, then try mplayer -fps 14 tv:// i get a green screen and the camera is not activated. Something seems to block Xv but no msgs to indicate what. Only answer to the problem is to reboot. All suggestions welcome TIA Barry
Re: Half decent linux game
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM, wrote: > Hi all, > > Just recently came across a pretty good linux game, World of Goo. Having a > 14y/o and a 4y/o who are both into gaming makes it tricky to have a stand > alone linux machine in the house with the lack of decent games out there. A > friend put me onto this game and mentioned that it was also availabe for > *nix. > > The game so I have been told is similar to lemmings (not that I played that) > and the online game is totally addictive and keeps you ticking away at the > challenges. Anyway they have a playable demo on their site and the full game > is available for $20 USD so not free as in beer but for me a worthwhile > investment. > > http://2dboy.com/games.php > Of course there is a lemmings clone called pingus which is in the ubuntu repos (and probably other distros). very very addictive. you have been warned.
