Bug#468085: ekiga: Defaulting to V4L2 instead of V4L

[Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com]

Package: ekiga
Version: 2.0.11-2ubuntu2
Severity: normal

Most modern webcam and capture devices are V4L2 based, but gstreamer and
Ekiga both default to using V4L instead. The V4L API isn't even
available in 2.6 kernels 
beyond 2.6.15, so it makes much more sense to not default to it.

Webcam capture applications that use V4L2 will tend to throw errors that
are daunting to new users for this reason.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers hardy
  APT policy: (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-8-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ekiga depends on:
ii  evolution-data-ser 2.21.92-0ubuntu1      evolution database backend
server
ii  gconf2             2.21.90-0ubuntu2      GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2       2.3.20-1              Library of functions for 2D
graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0        1.21.92-0ubuntu1      The ATK accessibility
toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0      0.2.6-7ubuntu1        Open-source version of
SGI's audio
ii  libavahi-client3   0.6.22-2ubuntu1       Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3   0.6.22-2ubuntu1       Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-glib1     0.6.22-2ubuntu1       Avahi glib integration
library
ii  libbonobo2-0       2.21.90-1             Bonobo CORBA interfaces
library
ii  libbonoboui2-0     2.21.90-1             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6              2.7-5ubuntu2          GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii  libcairo2          1.5.8-0ubuntu1        The Cairo 2D vector
graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.1.2-1ubuntu2        simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.74-1                simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-9      2.21.92-0ubuntu1      Client library for
evolution addre
ii  libedataserver1.2- 2.21.92-0ubuntu1      Utility library for
evolution data
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libe 0.2.38-0ubuntu8       Enlightened Sound Daemon
(ALSA) - 
ii  libgcc1            1:4.2.3-2ubuntu1      GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4        2.21.90-0ubuntu2      GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.15.6-0ubuntu1       The GLib library of C
routines
ii  libgnome2-0        2.21.90-0ubuntu2      The GNOME 2 library -
runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0  2.20.1.1-1            A powerful object-oriented
display
ii  libgnomeui-0       2.21.91-0ubuntu2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User
Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0     1:2.21.90-0ubuntu1    GNOME Virtual File System
(runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.12.8-1              The GTK+ graphical user
interface 
ii  libice6            2:1.0.4-1             X11 Inter-Client Exchange
library
ii  liblaunchpad-integ 0.1.15                library for launchpad
integration
ii  libopal-2.2        2.2.11~dfsg1-3ubuntu2 Open Phone Abstraction
Library - s
ii  liborbit2          1:2.14.12-0ubuntu1    libraries for ORBit2 - a
CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.19.3-1ubuntu1       Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  libpopt0           1.10-3build1          lib for parsing cmdline
parameters
ii  libpt-1.10.10      1.10.10-1ubuntu5      Portable Windows Library
ii  libsdl1.2debian    1.2.13-1ubuntu1       Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsm6             2:1.0.3-1             X11 Session Management
library
ii  libstdc++6         4.2.3-2ubuntu1        The GNU Standard C++
Library v3
ii  libx11-6           2:1.1.3-1ubuntu1      X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2            2.6.31.dfsg-1ubuntu1  GNOME XML library

Versions of packages ekiga recommends:
ii  yelp                    2.21.90-0ubuntu2 Help browser for GNOME 2

-- no debconf information


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Mario Limonciello
Dell | Linux Engineering
Desk : (512) 723-0582
mario_limonciello at dell.com


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