<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I found that I could close the Control Panel and Root and Skype didn't crash on me. I have no idea if it will do it for a third time. :)<br><br>I have also tried the following regarding permissions<br>I did <br>[root@localhost ~]# cd /etc<br>[root@localhost etc]# gedit /group<br>This opened Gedit and I added the following:<br># Camera Group add Moshe<br># Moshe<br>I also did the same to the file Gedit file "Group-"<br><br>In the Mandriva 2009.0 Gnome Console in Manage Users on System I selected the Users tab and edited my Login ticking all the Groups present. I then removed the tick on the Filter Users Tab.<br><br>I tried previously with a backslash typed in before -o skype.strace skype and got the reply -o unknown command. Then I typed as follows and Skype openend and the camera picture is good:<br><br>[root@localhost ~]#
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so strace -f -e open -o skype.strace skype<br>ALSA lib pcm:2202: (snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hd1<br>ALSA lib pcm:2202: (snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hd1<br>ALSA lib pcm:2202: (snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hd1<br>ALSA lib pcm:2202: (snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hd1<br>ALSA lib pcm:2202: (snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hd1<br>ALSA lib pcm:2202: (snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hd1<br>Starting the process...<br>Skype Xv: Xv ports available: 64<br>Skype XShm: XShm support enabled<br>Skype Xv: Using Xv port 325<br>[]</td></tr></table><br>