On 2011-03-10, peasth...@shaw.ca <peasth...@shaw.ca> wrote: > From: Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:03:52 +0000 (UTC) >> #!/bin/sh >> export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so >> exec /usr/bin/skype > > Works perfectly. Thanks. > > For sake of interest, another approach which failed was to list > v4l1compat in /etc/modules and invoke /usr/bin/skype in > ~/.config/auto*/skype* . > > peter@dalton:~$ egrep -v '(^ *#)|(^ *$)' /etc/modules > loop > v4l1compat > > Why does this fail while use of LD_PRELOAD as above works?
The problem you were facing was a userspace one, namely, how to force an executable to load a library that would not otherwise be loaded. That's what LD_PRELOAD achieves. I'm not aware of a kernel module named v4l1compat, so I can't see how explicitly loading such a module would have helped anyway. -- Liam O'Toole Cork, Ireland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrninijst.m36.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet
