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[rcrsn51]

Regarding Skype: there is a discussion here about getting other webcams to work.

It involves making a script that preloads some other code.

The required file is /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so which is part of your guvcview install.

From the command line, type:

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

[panoss]

It gave me an error.

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# LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
skype: error while loadind shared libraries: libQtDBus.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[rcrsn51]

Do you get that error when you run skype on its own?

What skype package are you using?

[panoss]

I get the error when the command is executed in the console, Skype is not loaded, it's closed.
I'm using the static package of Skype. Maybe that's the problem.

[rcrsn51]

I'm confused. I don't think that the error message has anything to do with your webcam.

Have you ever had skype running at all? How did you start it?

Please supply a link to the source of your skype package.

[panoss]

Have you ever had skype running at all? How did you start it?

(I have put the files of skype in folder: /root/skype/skype_staticQT)
Yes, it is running.
I started it by clicking the executable file of skype: /root/skype/skype_staticQT-4.0.0.8/skype

Please supply a link to the source of your skype package.

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/ ... ing.static

[Karl Godt]

What do you mean here? To open the file /var/log/messages with syslogd? How?

To view use a common editor .
The files might be not existant if syslogd and klogd are not started .
Puppy 4 series started these daemons from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit directly ,
newer use a /etc/init.d/ script .
I like them being started before the module loading starts
so when i set UDEV_LOG=7 in rc.sysinit the output gets directed to /var/log/messages and not to the console .

[rcrsn51]

Regarding skype: I got the official skype package. I installed it using these instructions:

We recommend copying the skype binary to /usr/bin and installing sounds/, lang/ and avatars/ into the /usr/share/skype directory.

Under your setup, I don't understand how running the command "skype" would work at all, unless you have also installed some other skype package.

I ran "skype" and my webcam was auto-detected correctly.

In your case, run the command

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

[panoss]

Regarding skype: I got the official skype package.

You mean ubuntu 10.04 32 bit?

[rcrsn51]

Regarding skype: I got the official skype package.

You mean ubuntu 10.04 32 bit?

No. The one from your link.