Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

[Michael Pobega]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:05:33PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 14:30 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 12:14:30PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 12:10 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > now I have another issue, because my
> > > > microphone doesn't seem to want to work in Ekiga ... I can get
> > > > playback
> > > > through my speakers (using alsamixer) but no matter what I do I can't
> > > > get Ekiga's echoing system to echo back my microphone
> > > > (sip:500@×××××.net) ... It's frustrating at this point in time, but I
> > > > hope this is as easily solvable as the webcam issue.
> > >
> > > Make sure your microphone is unmuted (alsamixer).  If applicable, make
> > > sure that your "capture device" is set to "microphone" (alsamixer -V
> > > capture).
> > >
> >
> > Nope, not working. No matter what settings I use in alsamixer the
> > microphone doesn't seem to work with Ekiga's echo call ... So I don't
> > know where to go from here. Here is a screenshot with my alsamixer
> > settings
>
> I dunno... works for me ;-)
>
> Again, check your USE flags... does pwlib have alsa support?
>
> -a
>

Yessir, it does...

dev-libs/pwlib-1.10.10-r1  USE="alsa ldap sdl ssl v4l xml -debug -ieee1394 -ipv6 -oss -sasl -v4l2"

Is there anything else I should check? Perhaps I should enable OSS
support as well...? I mean, it may work, considering I have ALSA doing
OSS emulation. I'm not sure if it's even worth a try though.

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