From:   Liam O'Toole <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:24:29 +0000 (UTC)
> 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.

OK, a spelling error.
peter@dalton:~$ egrep -v '(^ *#)|(^ *$)' /etc/modules
loop
v4l1_compat

> 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.

Is "loading /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so" synonymous with "loading module 
v4l1_compat"?  If so, then why does the library work for skype in one case 
and not in the other?

Thanks,             ... Peter E.



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