strace -e open - this got the Camera working again

[Shlomi Fish]

On Sunday 01 March 2009 22:52:59 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 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.
>

Sorry - that should have been:

{{{
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
}}}

But without all the strace buggage.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> 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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