Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:36:38 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kopete MSN + Cam Message-ID: <451C4E76.1000408@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <d5fccc400609280924m619944d3x2d1b8a289551939a@mail.gmail.com> References: <200609281526.55362.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> <451BE953.9020509@u.washington.edu> <d5fccc400609280924m619944d3x2d1b8a289551939a@mail.gmail.com>
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Forró A Hunor wrote: > 2006/9/28, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>: >> >> Warren Liddell wrote: >> > Is or will there ever be support to allow the viewing of Webcams from >> others >> > or is it simply not possible ? >> Webcam support still isn't fully functional in any of the opensource >> projects I think; gaim is the closest to getting a working prototype >> though, through the gaim-vv subproject. IIRC, the author of Kopete is >> helping out, so the MSN webcam functionality might become available in >> Kopete sometime in the near future. >> -Garrett >> > > There is an MSN Messenger clone for Linux. I haven't used it but I think it > seems to be good. I will try it shortly. > > You can read further and download from the project's homepage at > http://amsn.sourceforge.net/ It's already in ports: net-im/amsn and doesn't need linux compat %make run-depends-list /usr/ports/devel/gmake /usr/ports/devel/tcllib /usr/ports/devel/tcltls /usr/ports/graphics/imlib /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84 I've installed it and someone with a login has logged in but that's the extent of testing here, ie not tested with a webcam. Chris > > Don't forget to enable linux compatibility in > > /etc/rc.conf from > > linux_enable="NO" > > to > > linux_enable="YES" > > Pls notify me if it's working >
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