Kopete and Toucam

[KLarsen]

I have a problem getting my Philips Toucam working in Kopete (and aMSN although I don't normally use this).
When I go to the devices section of the configuration, the cpu is at 100% and after some time I get to see the tab, but no video. There's just a QT logo where the video should be, though the options show the webcam. The machine continues using 100% and I can't get to change the settings in the tab.
When I open Kopete from the console, it shows:

$ kopete
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
$ ScimInputContextPlugin()
QPixmap::convertFromImage: Cannot convert a null image
libkopete: WARNING: Kopete::ContactList::saveXML: Couldn't open contact list file /home/klarsen/.kde/share/apps/kopete/contactlist.xml. Contact list not saved.
QPixmap::convertFromImage: Cannot convert a null image
QPixmap::convertFromImage: Cannot convert a null image
QPixmap::convertFromImage: Cannot convert a null image
QPixmap::convertFromImage: Cannot convert a null image
QPixmap::convertFromImage: Cannot convert a null image
QPixmap::convertFromImage: Cannot convert a null image
QPixmap::convertFromImage: Cannot convert a null image
QPixmap::convertFromImage: Cannot convert a null image
QPixmap::convertFromImage: Cannot convert a null image

The webcam works fine in both Xawtv and gqcam.

Please, can anyone help me with this?

[askrieger]

Re: Kopete and Toucam

I know nothing about either kopete or webcams, but I can tell you how to eliminate all those X error BadDevice lines. Start a konsole. Enter the command "sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf". enter your pass word when requested. A console editor called nano will start up. To navigate, you have to use the arrow keys on your keyboard because nano is too simple to use a mouse. Arrow down the stanzas that say

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver    "wacom"

There will be three of them. #comment out EVERY line in each of the three stanzas from the Section line to the EndSection line. Then go to the stanza called "Server Layout" and #comment out the three lines referring to "stylus", "cursor", and "eraser". At least, that will get rid of those annoying excess error messages.

As to your real problem: Without knowing how to read or write, as a former boss of mine uesd to say (until he won a Nobel Prize), I would look for the file /home/klarsen/.kde/share/apps/kopete/contactlist.xml. (it will be easier to find if you set Konqueror to show hidden files and directories.) If the file doesn't exist I would create an empty file called contactlist.xml in that directory with konsole commands

cd ~/.kde/share/apps/kopete/
touch contactlist.xml

Now, a file exists that the kopete program can fill up. I'm surprised that file was not created either when you installed kopete or the first time you tried to use it.

[KLarsen]

Re: Kopete and Toucam

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your reply which I actually haven't noticed until now - my bad.
In the meantime I've changed from Kubuntu to Gentoo but will try and get Kopete working here too.

Regards,
Kenneth