<span class="gmail_quote">On 1/4/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Evans</b> <<a href="mailto:mike@tandem.f9.co.uk">mike@tandem.f9.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
<a href="mailto:sireth@blueyonder.co.uk">sireth@blueyonder.co.uk</a> wrote:<br>> Asus Eee PC<br>><br>> Hi,<br>> This is my 1st posting here and I'm quite new to Linux so please be nice.<br>We're (almost) always nice :)
<br>><br>> I'm very interested in the new Asus Eee pc. My first intention was to use<br>> it for video VOIP calls through Skype. This would be a great idea if only<br>> Skype supported the use of web cams with their Linux based software.
<br>><br>Now then - someone on here recently got an eee - someone I was chatting<br>to on the IRC Channel. </blockquote><div><br><br> I have got an eeePC and it works perfectly with the preinstalled Skype client. I recently made a call to a European mobile using my eeePC connected to my old
802.11b wireless access point and the call was perfectly clear.<br><br>I did try installing the beta Skype client with video cam support but it would always error for me, and when I went back to the Skype website to download the beta again it had been removed. So I am guessing there are a few problems. Although Alan Pope got the beta installed and apparently the video camera works fine, after a bit of tweaking to get it switched on.
<br><br>Colin<br></div><br><br>