On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 21:11:45 Peter Merchant wrote:
> And with our friend google, discovered a forum entry that suggested I
> try the following string. I had to stop skype first, and dig out the
> password.
>
> sh -c 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
> /usr/bin/skype "$@"'
I found the same string in a Linux Mint forum. I followed the instructions
there exactly (put the string into a shell script in /usr/local/bin and ran
skype - no change.
> For anybody else, Terry and I are on different versions of Skype.
> 2.2.0.35 for me. This brought up my mug in the preview window, but I
> have not tried online with anyone yet. For information I had to
> reinstall video-for-linux (v4l) the other week in order to get my DVB-T
> working.
Just to be on the safe side, I installed qv4l2 and ran it. I was able to
activate the webcam inside that, but still not inside skype.
Here are some bit from lsusb and lsmod:
terry@BEIGE:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:09a2 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate
Deluxe/S7500
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 045e:0084 Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
....
terry@BEIGE:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
.....
nvidia 11309140 40
....
uvcvideo 76750 0
....
videobuf2_core 32852 1 uvcvideo
videodev 120310 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
....
videobuf2_vmalloc 12861 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 13405 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
....
No mention of v4l, I notice. All video capture seems to be done by uvcvideo.
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