Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ekiga
Ekiga is not recognising my webcam (Microsoft NX-6000), and I believe it is caused by the "registered" symbol in the device name. I am attaching screenshots. In 'character.png' you can see the culprit character in the device name. When I run Ekiga in the terminal I get errors that refer to invalid UTF characters. The first comes up when I open the preferences dialog: I receive many instances of "(ekiga:6579): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text() ." Then I go to Video > Devices and select the camera as a video device. Each action generates more of the Pango warnings, but selecting the camera also generates a "(ekiga:6579): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_engine_set_string: assertion `g_utf8_validate (val, -1, NULL)' failed." Except for this terminal message I select the camera seemingly without failing, and I close the preferences dialog. However, when I try to display the camera on the call pane, the program tries to fall back to one another one of my video devices (a TV card), which fails and displays the moving logo. Pressing "Detect Devices" in the video devices dialog makes the camera disappear from the device list as seen in 'devices.png.' One individual reported having seemingly similar problems with the same camera model (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1025676) on December 30, 2008, but has not responded yet to my recent attempt to confirm my specific errors. So it seems like this specific character is the issue to me. So, in the meantime is there a way to rename the device so that it works in Ekiga until the bug is fixed? I also figure that this is probably an upstream issue. Please let me know if I can do anymore testing. ** Affects: ekiga (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Ekiga doesn't recognize webcam with non-UTF chars https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345192 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
