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http://www.ubuntux.org – I have webcam Genius Eye 312, and i try to get it to work properly on Ubuntu 11.10. Cheese recognize webcam, but Skype don't, and that is most important, i need it for Skype and Gtalk. How to configure/fix that bug ? i tried with LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype - that work in 11.04 but here in 11.10... nope (Distributions)

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Submitted by delinux on 10/16/2011

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I am running kubuntu 12.04 The webcam works with cheese and on test on phonon.

It doesn't work on skype.

The code LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype doesn't work the terminal gives ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

lsusb recognize it

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 093a:2468 Pixart Imaging, Inc.

I am running Linux Mint, but i think this issue will be mutual with Ubuntu. My webcam in Skype is upside down (in Cheese it's ok). There are a lot of topics dealing with this coming up with fix like this:

$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

or similar modifications. Unfortunately, I don't have this file.

This is making me crazy.

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