After wrestling with trying to get pidgin to do GoolgleTalk video
chat, and further attempts with the GoogleTalk plugin with Firefox,
all with very little success, I thought I'd try out ekiga.

On two different machines (one laptop, one desktop, both 32-bit), with
two different webcams (Logitec and Microsoft) and different sound
cards, fresh installs of SL 6.0 + all the latest updates
(ekiga-3.2.6-3.el6.i686), ekiga doesn't seem to be able to find any
sound or video devices. The only options I get for audio devices is
"SILENT" and the only option I get for video is "Moving Logo". Running
ekiga with debug output just shows that it's detecting SILENT and
Moving Logo when I click detect devices.

On both machines both cameras work (tested with cheese) and the audio
works fine with a variety of applications (including, sort of, kind
of, pidgin).

I gotta believe this isn't as broken as it seems to be and I'll
probably slap my forehead when I see what I'm doing wrong, but right
now I don't see it and googling all over the place hasn't helped.

My thanks for any advice...

                 - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210

Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test
first, the lesson afterwards. - Vernon Saunders' Law

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