strace -e open - this got the Camera working again

[Moshe Brace using Yahoo]

A quirk in the response that I get, let me explain:
When I type # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so strace -f -e open -o skype.strace skype

Yes I get the Video, but no sound! I then find that I have to type
# alsactl restore and reboot for Skype sound WITHOUT camera left clicking on Applications--->Internet--->Skype.

I wonder whether with the # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so strace -f -e open -o skype.strace skype 

Skype can't find ALSA.

This appears to be a Chinese puzzle, do one don't get the other.
Moshe

--- On Sun, 1/3/09, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il>
Subject: Re: strace -e open - this got the Camera working again
To: mbrace700 at yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sunday, 1 March, 2009, 8:03 PM

On Sunday 01 March 2009 19:31:20 Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote:
> [root at localhost ~]# ls -l /dev/video0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 2009-03-01 1800 /dev/video0
> [root at localhost ~]#
>

Ah, OK. Then you need to add the user "moshe" to the group
"video". One option 
would be to edit /etc/group as root and add it to the appropriate line in the 
file. But maybe Mandriva has a GUI for that.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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