On Friday 06 March 2009 10:37:13 Barry Marchant wrote:
> anyone out there using skype? Currently when testing video under options
> the webcam activates but i only get a black, or white screen, no image.
> If i kill skype, then try mplayer -fps 14 tv:// i get a green screen and
> the camera is not activated. Something seems to block Xv but no msgs to
> indicate what. Only answer to the problem is to reboot.
Have you got all the shared object libraries loaded?
fyi, my skype loads all these:-
ch...@imogen:~$ ldd /usr/bin/skype
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb80d9000)
libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0xb7fe1000)
libXv.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXv.so.1 (0xb7fdb000)
libXss.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXss.so.1 (0xb7fd6000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb7fcd000)
libQtDBus.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4 (0xb7f5f000)
libQtGui.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 (0xb765c000)
libQtNetwork.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4 (0xb755b000)
libQtCore.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 (0xb732d000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7313000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7225000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb71ff000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb71f0000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7092000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb6fa3000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb6f94000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6f8f000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb80bf000)
libQtXml.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4 (0xb6f4b000)
libaudio.so.2 => /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2 (0xb6f33000)
libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb6f0d000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb6f04000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb6eeb000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb6ed5000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb6e1e000)
libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb6e14000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb6e0a000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb6e03000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb6d8c000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb6d5f000)
libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb6d59000)
libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xb6d56000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb6d3d000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb6d39000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb6ce8000)
libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0xb6cb6000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb6c8f000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb6c8a000)
ch...@imogen:~$
Do you get something like that?
No undefined references anyway.
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With Sincerity,
Christopher Sawtell
