strace -e open - this got the Camera working again

[Shlomi Fish]

On Sunday 01 March 2009 20:43:05 Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote:
> 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
>

OK. Try this:

1. Add the user "moshe" to the "video" group. You can use "drakuser" as root 
to do it. It's an easy-to-use GUI.

2. As the user "moshe", run "skype" from the command line.

3. See if everything works.

4. If not, fire up the mixer, and see if you can get sound to work.

Please quote the message I sent you and report each thing whether it was 
successful or not.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish


> --- 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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