From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 28 22:42:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5320316A40F for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:42:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506F143D78 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:42:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from [172.23.170.139] (helo=anti-virus01-10) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GT4Zu-0003Sl-Dz for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:42:02 +0100 Received: from [82.35.115.93] (helo=[192.168.10.60]) by asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GT4Uh-0001kK-Kv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:36:39 +0100 Message-ID: <451C4E76.1000408@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:36:38 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060417) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200609281526.55362.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> <451BE953.9020509@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Kopete MSN + Cam X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:42:22 -0000 Forró A Hunor wrote: > 2006/9/28, Garrett Cooper : >> >> 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 >