[kde-freebsd] kopete-1.1.3 (from kde-4.7.3) doesn't support webcam

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Tue Nov 29 11:51:42 UTC 2011


On 11/29/2011 03:44, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> I run kopete 0.12.7 in KDE 3.5.10 (only for tests, normaly I use Pidgin)
> and Settings-->Configure-->Devices brings up the picture from
> /dev/video0 created by webcamd; note: the device is created as:
>
> $ ls -l /dev/video0
> crw-rw----  1 webcamd  webcamd  0x7e Nov 29 12:33 /dev/video0
>
> and you must be in the group 'webcamd' to open it for reading(...)

I am the member of webcamd group. And my video device looks similar:
crw-rw----  1 webcamd  webcamd    0, 131 Nov 29 03:18 /dev/video0

But it doesn't show up in kopete.

You use kde3, that's maybe the reason. I use kde4.

Yuri


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