Need Help with Linux Video and Skype

[Mark Phillips]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:

> From: Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> It looks to me like video playback is sucking hard - esp. if Youtube
> >> can crash it.  Are your video drivers set up correctly?
> > Not sure how to check this
>
> Post the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA"

beagle:/home/mark# lspci |grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY
[Radeon 7000/VE]
beagle:/home/mark#


> as well as the output of "grep
> Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf".

beagle:/home/mark# grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20070513113236
    Driver        "kbd"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Driver        "ati"
beagle:/home/mark#

> You may want to put your xorg.conf file up
> somewhere and post a link to the mailing list so others can take a look.
>
> >> What happens when you run glxgears at the command line?
> > It ran ok
> > mark at beagle:~$ glxgears
> > 49 frames in 5.1 seconds =  9.638 FPS
>
> That's NOT "ok".  It's downright horrible, but if you were running over ssh
> -X, that's to be expected.  Very little hardware acceleration can happen
> when
> you're running X11 over a network instead of directly.
>
> >> Do you have the latest flash player?
> > Probably not....don't use flash much.
>
> Which version is it?  That may be important.
>
flash version 10

>
> > I actually think there is an input problem. When I am connected through
> > skype to another computer, the audio works fine and I can see the other
> > person without any problem. No crashes. When I tell skype to turn on my
> > camera, it does not turn on (no red light) and just crashes.
>
> What (if anything) does "dmesg | tail -n40" say after a crash like that?

Nothing related to the crash. The only skype related message is
process `skype1' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
which appears before the crash.


> The
> first thing I'd try in this situation is to replace the Debian-patched
> kernel
> with a vanilla kernel, but I've just seen more weird bugs in distro-patched
> kernels than in the vanilla ones.  Replacing a kernel is also a bit
> intimidating if you've never done it before.
>

Seems a little over kill? I have skype running on Debian testing on another
machine (but it is AMD64, but skype only runs on 32 bit).

One really strange thing happened. I ssh -X into that box and started skype
from that box. I then called my box, which was also running skype. The video
worked just fine from the remote box (where it always crashed before). I had
a nice 2 way video chat with myself. Maybe a timing thing?

Thanks

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