I have just bought and installed a QuickCam Messanger from Logitech. Assuming you've got a USB cam (most common from currently sold ones), you'd better try to check first if your camera is recognized by the system. use /sbin/lsusb or KDE control center to list your usb devices. Also, check in the /var/log/messages to see if the driver has initialized. You'll find which /dev/video? interface your camera is bind to (normally, /dev/video, which is linked to /dev/video0, unless you've got a TV card or another cam on your system). Afterwards try to get a

Hi Ralpf, picture out of your cam using xawtv (add -c /dev/video? to specify which video interface you want to attach to). xawtv should work. Then you can use your /dev/video? information to put into preferences of gnomemeeting. BTW, it (gnomemeeting) worked quite unstable for me - even on a local network it was hanging after several minutes of conference, and the sound and picture quality was not very good... Hope you have a better experience! :) Cheers Eduard __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com