I can’t use the webcam with skype. I followed the instructions on the SDB
Skype page of opensuse.org. I can make calls and recieve calls, but there
is no video option. Sound isn’t going either way during the calls. In
Skype’s options menu, there is a place to test the video. When I click on
the “Test” button, Skype freezes and eventually the terminate application
window comes up.
The webcam is a Logitech that works fine in Cheese, and I’ve used it with
previous versions of Opensuse and Skype. The only skype available that
I’ve found is the 2.1 beta version, so that’s what I’m using. I’m using
Opensuse 11.4 with KDE4.
Thanks,
-tom
I’m using the same version of skype and a Logitech camera (C250) without any problems. One thing i did notice was that the camera wouldn’t work with the gstreamer codecs installed by openSuse. I changed all of them to the Packman versions and skype works with my camera without any problems.
That did it. Thanks a lot!
I never would have figured that one out on my own.
Argoson wrote:
>
> I’m using the same version of skype and a Logitech camera (C250)
without
> any problems. One thing i did notice was that the camera wouldn’t work
> with the gstreamer codecs installed by openSuse. I changed all of them
> to the Packman versions and skype works with my camera without any
> problems.
>
>
well… now you know.
…but now I don’t have sound in anything. It was there before. The Wifi
was there before too, but why would that be broken now?
Perhaps this laptop is too old to find good drivers for. This may be
reason enough to get another PC. 
Argoson wrote:
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> Tom Millican;2318049 Wrote:
>> That did it. Thanks a lot!
>> I never would have figured that one out on my own.
>>
>
> well… now you know.
>
>
When you say no sound - is it only when you play a video or music or in the entire system ? check the volume. sometimes kMix will default to mute when i restart the computer.
I don’t see any reason why WiFi will stop working after changing the codecs…
I have an old laptop as well -HP dv2000 with a 1.86 ghz single core , 512mb ram and broadcom wifi card. still works great with openSuse 11.4 and LXDE desktop.
Don’t know if you have a 64bit system, if yes, check my answer on this thread
Skype
This repo works for sure and you need to add these lines to it also.
If you still have the problems, give it a shot.
There was no sound at all, not even the test sound from the sound
configuration in Yast. I followed Joerg’s instructions, and there is
now sound with the test sound option in Yast, but nothing else. The
wifi seems to be a coincidence. It doesn’t work when booting in Windows
anymore either, so I think the hardware is dead.
Thanks for the help. I’ll try some other distros and try to find
something that works with both sound and video. I’ve spent 1.5 weeks on
this already with no luck. …a new pc still sounds like the best
option.
Argoson wrote:
>
> When you say no sound - is it only when you play a video or music or
in
> the entire system ? check the volume. sometimes kMix will default to
> mute when i restart the computer.
>
> I don’t see any reason why WiFi will stop working after changing the
> codecs…
>
> I have an old laptop as well -HP dv2000 with a 1.86 ghz single core ,
> 512mb ram and broadcom wifi card. still works great with openSuse
11.4
> and LXDE desktop.
>
>
I had some issues with Skype as well. One thing you should do is go into kopete and test to see if the cam shows video, if skype still doesnt work turn off kopete as it seems like it might be stealing focus for the cam. Messing with that usually fixes my problems, but you might have to restart skype. The default audio didnt work right away for me but go into the options and click on sound devices and try changing the microphone and testing to see if any of them works. Ohh and dont forget to go into kmix mixer and make sure the mic volume and PCM is up. My volume was all the way down even though that makes no sense.