I was trying to get video calls to work in Pidgin but my webcam wouldn't be detected. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: In preferences, voice/video, I would only see default disabled test pattern as options, none of which was my webcam. Actual Results: I made sure that Pidgin had been compiled with the gstreamer USE flag. Expected Results: Once I emerged gst-plugins-v4l2, it showed up as "HD user facing: HD user facing" (sic) and now it works fine. So I believe it should be added as a dependency to Pidgin (as long as gstreamer is enabled). Portage 3.0.30 (python 3.9.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1, gcc-11.2.1, glibc-2.33-r13, 5.15.23 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.15.23-x86_64-with-glibc2.33 KiB Mem: 7995872 total, 5665488 free KiB Swap: 1357820 total, 1357820 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 95e652435ccc57363418bdfd7cf23cdc24089557 sh dash 0.5.11.5 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.37_p1 p2) 2.37 app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.3::gentoo app-shells/bash: 5.1_p16::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.34.0-r6::gentoo dev-lang/python: 3.9.9-r1::gentoo, 3.10.2_p1::gentoo dev-lang/rust-bin: 1.58.1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.22.2::gentoo dev-util/meson: 0.60.3::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.7-r3::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.44.10::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.25::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.71-r1::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.16.4::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.37_p1-r2::gentoo sys-devel/binutils-config: 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condition tee tarpit sysrq proto steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: ADDR2LINE, AR, ARFLAGS, AS, ASFLAGS, CC, CCLD, CONFIG_SHELL, CPP, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, CXXFILT, ELFEDIT, EXTRA_ECONF, F77FLAGS, FC, GCOV, GPROF, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LD, LEX, LFLAGS, LIBTOOL, LINGUAS, MAKE, MAKEFLAGS, NM, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, RANLIB, READELF, RUSTFLAGS, SIZE, STRINGS, STRIP, YACC, YFLAGS
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=841e0c5e2a266d1224511ffee776e620b3b33232 commit 841e0c5e2a266d1224511ffee776e620b3b33232 Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-03-24 17:07:39 +0000 Commit: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-03-24 17:07:57 +0000 net-im/pidgin: Add "v4l" USE flag + dep Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/835631 Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> net-im/pidgin/pidgin-2.14.8-r1.ebuild | 291 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 291 insertions(+)
Please test and report back if the "v4l" USE-flag does the trick for you.
It does. Thank you very much!
