Last night was another exercise in frustration. I decided to try skype again so I called up the parents and waited for them to log on. I call them and get audio and video from their side, but they can't hear or see us. No LED on the webcam confirms it's not working. I try "rebooting" the camera by unplugging it and plugging it back in again. Another call and video is working! However, audio is still not working. I go into the sound manager (Gnome) and see that the webcam is not selected for input (can't the system mix different inputs?). I select it and see the VU meter working but still no sound in skype. Restarting skype and everything works. I don't understand why pulse or whatever isn't making the microphone available to skype dynamically.
Here's a nag from the archives - my video woes on my E1705 laptop. It has an ATI x1400. Short story - I've never had reliable 3d from this card. Long story: In the beginning I had to use the ATI catalyst drivers and like everything else in linux it was a trade off. I had to trade sleep/hibernate for opengl. But no matter what I did, I couldn't get Beryl or Compiz to work. Eventually, ATI stopped supporting the X1400 in their driver updates and it still had issues with suspend (there were probably some other issues as well). By that time the open source driver supposedly had 3d support. I found that some things seemed to work, but googleearth would crash after a minute or two. So I've never got full use out of that video card, except of course when I actually ran windows :(
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