Dear All, I tested this some more on CentOs 6, tried as root, tried the trick with cat /dev/....but no luck. I would think that somewhere in /var/log there is an error message giving some indication, but found nothing. So I installed Jitsi, also OpenSource, that gave me video image first time round. Greetings to All, thanks anyway for the tips. James Op 22-09-11 05:24, Always Learning schreef: > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 06:43 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> You need an ILS server/service or a sip server to make ekiga useful. ILS >> is going/has gone the way of the dodo...so any sip client that supports >> video should do. If ekiga does not work, try others. > Ekiga works well on Centos 5.6 with a SIP server. > >