Re: Looking for open-source messengers
- From: shedied@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 20 Feb 2007 13:08:52 -0800
On Feb 19, 11:25 pm, "Balwinder S \"bsd\" Dheeman"
<bsd.SANS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/19/2007 11:52 PM, shed...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:This is what lsusb gives me (from a reboot).
On Feb 17, 12:57 pm, "Mazilo" <maz...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just installed a Debian v4.0 (Etch) on my old AMD Duron v1.8GHz
256MB RAM machine. I would like to know if anyone out here can
recommend an open-source messenger program that supports voice/video/
chat and works with Yahoo/MSN/Google Messengers. This way, I can
really ditch my Windows Vista machine for another Linux OS.
I have given up searching for a client that can do both video and
chat, even though I have an older creative webcam. I tried webcamnow
DOT com because there was no need to install anything but the site
detects the OS and it's under the impression that I own a Mac (non-
windows, you see) and I could go no further. If your distro recognizes
the cam I believe that's a good start. In this case, back during my
search there were suggestions to setup your website with regular
uploads of you from your webcam via ftp (makes sense) and have a
client like gaim or Ymessenger open. A healthy compromise, if you ask
me, if you're ok with running 2 apps like that, and your chatmates may
only have to click on a link you provide for the viewing.
gaim vv (voice+video) would seem promising if (and only if) your model
camera appears on their 'hardware supported' list. But it seems to
have slowed down in development.
I have been trying live distros to see if they recognize my webcam and
it's been frustrating. Yet the light remains on on my USB cam, mocking
me :(
Is it possible you tell us something more about your USB webcam?
The lsusb command might be useful, IMHO, you might need to try:
$ apropos usb
$ apropos dmesg
too. Plz don't search models, it is basically the chipset which matters
more in Linux/Unix land for finding a suitable driver for most of the
peripherals.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 041e:400d Creative Technology, Ltd WebCam
PD1001
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
I think I may have abandoned setting it up when part of the steps
involved configuring (and recompiling) the kernel just for the cam
(It's a creative webcam). After spending hours getting the dual head
to work properly on an ATI 7000 Radeon (!) card, I held off on it
since. I wanted to use my machine and not the other way around.
This is what dmesg shows:Feb 20 15:46:05 mondo kernel: usbcore:
registered new driver usbfs
Feb 20 15:46:05 mondo kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub
Feb 20 15:46:05 mondo kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using
address 2
Feb 20 15:46:05 mondo kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usblp
Feb 20 15:46:05 mondo kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB
Printer Device Class driver
Feb 20 15:46:05 mondo kernel: Modules linked in: eepro100 mii ide-cd
cdrom nls_iso8859-1 nls_cp850 vfat fat ext3 jbd intel-agp agpgart
usblp uhci-hcd usbcore genrtc
Feb 20 15:46:05 mondo kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
Feb 20 15:46:05 mondo kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
Feb 20 15:46:05 mondo kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB
HID core driver
Feb 20 15:46:02 mondo service_harddrake[2045]: running: /sbin/modprobe
usbhid
(There is a printer attached via the other USB slot)
.
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