[kwlug-disc] question about Webcam, Mic, Headphone for Skype video calls

Wed Oct 29 23:30:28 EDT 2014

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On 14-10-29 12:50 PM, William Park wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:34:04AM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>> One thing I found out was if you are running a 64 bit Linux, you
>> need to enable multiarch, since Skype is built as i386 not
>> amd64.
> 
> Yeah, I found it odd.  Also, distro choices are old versions, eg. 
> Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Debian 7.0, Fedora 16, OpenSUSU 12.1 
> And, it requires Qt, which means Kubuntu.
> 
> I'm running 64-bit Slackware, and it's 64-bit only.  So, not only
> do I need webcam/mic, but also a 32-bit machine. :-(

Hang on-I ran skype successfully with 14.04 ubuntu (gnome) x86_64 atom
Acer Aspire. No problem, albeit the whole system was a bit slow--but
it worked fine. I have no idea where the kubuntu/12.04/32b restriction
appears to be coming from? Just because of the extra 32b libs?
Anyway, the Cam-Mic here is a logitech "golf ball". Only trick is, you
have to select it in the audio input preferences control-panel
*before* starting up skype.

Gord.