Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

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Hello Moshe

I had a webcam working with skype. It used 100% cpu. I deleted skype for
various reasons and won't enter them here. I am curious to know how much cpu
ekiga uses with the camera?
Moreover, don't try to understand skype, because it isn't understandable.



2009/2/19 Moshe Brace using Yahoo <mbrace700 at yahoo.co.uk>

> Well I have only praise to say in the way Shlomi Fish answered my queries
> regarding my Webcam problems, even though I have not succeeded to get it to
> work. He compiled a file from source for webcams for me. I would never have
> been able to do this.
>
> As a newbe I really appreciate any help I get in sorting out and
> understanding Linux. Although Mandriva 2009.0 goes some way to making Linux
> easier to use, there are bugs like this that make one scratch their head. My
> Logitech Quickcam 8.4.8 Webcam works well in Cheese and Ekiga showing an
> excellent picture. My previous camera a Pixart PAC207 worked in Skype with
> Mandriva 2008.1 Spring but in 2009.0 it doesn't. I have read in Forums that
> other distros also suffer this. So the problem may be with Skype not knowing
> how to recognise Webcams correctly without a tweak somewhere. I would love
> to know what to tweak.
>
> I tried adding to /etc/modprobe.d a folder called quickcam and in it a text
> file quickcam.txt that had the line typed:
> options quickcam compatible=6
>
> I ended up reinstalling Mandriva 2009.0 because the 2008.0 disk must be
> damaged and spending hours installing favourite programmes after it updated.
>
>
> I have decided to live with no Webcam and Canoscan 3200f likewise when
> using Linux, it beats reinstalling.
>
> This is a copy of lsusb:
>
>
> Anyone got any ideas on this.
>
> Distro Mandriva 2009.0 Gnome Desktop
>
> Can this Logitech QuickCam Chat v8.4.8 be installed so Skype can use it?
> Ekiga and Cheese recognises work the Camera OK - video display good.
>
>
> [root at localhost ~]# lsusb
>
> Bus 008 Device 002: ID 03eb:3301 Atmel Corp. at433301 4-port Hub
> Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
>
> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1307:0165 Transcend Information, Inc.
>
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04a9:2216 Canon, Inc. Canoscan3200F
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
> Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
> Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
>
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:08a6 Logitech, Inc.
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
>
> [root at localhost ~]#
>
> Moshe
>
>
> --- On *Thu, 19/2/09, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il>* wrote:
>
> From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il>
> Subject: Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie
> questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)
> To: linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
> Date: Thursday, 19 February, 2009, 1:16 PM
>
>
> On Thursday 19 February 2009 00:40:07 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > I don't see you, Dotan Cohen, asking questions which were already
> asked
> > > recently.  I
>  don't think that any of your example questions would
> > > currently qualify as noob questions.  Long time has passed since
> anyone
> > > compiled his own kernel in Linux-IL or discussed writing a driver.
> >
> > Having unique problems is not the blessing that it looks like!
> >
> > Going through the gnubies list, though, I am starting to have two
> feelings:
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/gnubies-il/messages/?yguid=342368143
> >
> > 1) Too much spam. Shlomi made a post about the list being moderated,
> > and right after that there is a spam.
>
> That's probably because the spammer has subscribed to the list, and had
> already posted from this address before I made the list "first-time
> moderated". In the long-term, spam should still be eliminated there.
>
> >
> > 2) The current noob post is titled "Help with ubuntu.... please...
> ".
> > This will be easy for the gurus to
>  ignore, and if you are bored, you
> > could get in there and help the guy. We _need_ more Linux users in
> > Israel, and just ignoring the noobs will make them go back to the OS
> > that they came from. If anything, we have one more user filling up
> > Israeli apache logfiles with guarenteed non-IE hits.
>
> Right.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Shlomi Fish
>
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> trying to
>            achieve?
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