Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Webcam problems

["Damien Sandras" <dsandras seconix com>]

> Damien Sandras wrote:
>
>>>Hi,
>>>I have a webcam Logitech Chat. This camera is working fine with camorama
>>>and working fine with Ubuntu Dapper LTS 6.06, but in my production
>>>distro: Gentoo the camera is not working. I downloaded V4L and V4L2 but
>>>nothing happen. When I open  Preferences -> video devices -> Video
>>>Plugin is set to Pictures and I can not modified this when click on
>>>Detect devices button. When I worked with Ubuntu video plugin is set to
>>>v4l but I do not know how to fix this in Gentoo. I am migrating to
>>>Ubuntu but awhile I need to use Gentoo because all my data is there.
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>I appreciate some help
>>>
>>>
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>>That means that the plugins are not correctly installed. Check that they
>>appear in /usr/lib/pwlib (some subdirectory)
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>>You can also try strace ekiga to see if they are correctly loaded.
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>>>regards,
>>>dmery
>>>
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> Thanks for answering,
>
> I checked the directory /usr/lib/pbwlib and the system has
> /usr/lib/pbwlib/devices/sound. Directory "sound" has two plugins
> (alsa_pwplugin.so and oss_pwplugin.so). System does not have nothing
> about "video" or "v4l". I will check this directory in my Ubuntu system
> to match with Gentoo.
> Maybe you know but Gentoo OS installed v4l and v4l2 from "portage" and I
> suposse that "portage" installed it in a good way.
> If you have any idea what is wrong let me know,
>

If there is nothing concerning video in /usr/lib/pwlib, then portage
didn't do its job well.

You should try again, and perhaps report a bug to gentoo.

Damien