This quick fix applies to owners of Asus laptops mostly with uvcvideo driver on openSuse 11.4 64 bit. The main point is to flip the camera image to be ok on Skype. First check if you have libv4l-32bit package installed (with the required dependencies). Then create or edit an application launcher and in the Application tab for command enter:
export LIBV4LCONTROL_FLAGS=3 && LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
That’s it. Here is a screenshot for better view.
If none of the options available produce sound in Pidgin, choose command and enter aplay %s.
Want to keep in touch with your Facebook friends through Pidgin? Here I’ll show you how to easily add Facebook chat to this popular multi-protocol chat client.
1. First, make sure you have a username for your Facebook account, it’s http://facebook.com/your.username
2. Open Pidgin, go to Accounts->Manage Accounts and click Add.
3. From the Protocol list select XMPP
4. For the username field enter your Facebook username (without the “http://facebook.com/”)
5. For the domain field enter chat.facebook.com
6. Leave the Resource field empty
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There are many reasons why people choose to use Linux. The most of them are computer engineers, computer enthusiasts, programmers etc. Lately with some newer distributions of Linux like Ubuntu, OpenSuse and others, and making them more user friendly and usable, the people choose not to use Windows anymore. Here are some of the reasons why you should run Linux. Read the rest of this entry »
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