My hardware is a laptop with Intel Core 2 2 GHz, Nvidia GeForce 8600 GS. I just overwrote my opensuse 11.3 with 11.4 64-bit and tried to reinstall ‘skype’. The installation is very quiet and seems to work. I also installed the 32-bit libraries as listed in the SDB:Skype. I get the feedback that the installation went well. However, there is no entry in the desktop menu under Internet>More. When I try to launch ‘skype’ in a terminal it produces just identical lines with
ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
What is wrong? As I searched various forums I wonder why I’m the only one who ran into trouble like this?
It didn’t for me either. I have installed the one that you can find in the following repository (with thanks to OldCPU …)
Index of /repositories/home:/broumbroum23/openSUSE_11.3_NonFree_standard
Add the repo. Install Skype with zypper (replace any version you had previous). Then remove that repository. That did it for me
AdMo
FWIT
I have similar hardware and recently did fresh install of 11.4.
Downloaded latest Skype beta and verified installation of:
libpng12-0-32bit-1.2.44-2.1
libqt4-qt3support-32bit-4.6.3-2.1.1
libqt4-x11-32bit-4.6.3-2.1.1
libqt4-sql-sqlite-32bit-4.6.3-2.1.1
Mesa-32bit-7.8.2-1.3
libmng-32bit-1.0.10-97.1
libqt4-sql-mysql-32bit-4.6.3-1.3
libqt4-sql-32bit-4.6.3-2.1.1
libdrm-32bit-2.4.21-1.2
liblcms1-32bit-1.18a-8.1
libmysqlclient_r16-32bit-5.1.46-2.18
libqt4-32bit-4.6.3-2.1.1
xorg-x11-libXv-32bit-7.5-1.8
This list was found in an earlier post .
The beta installed properly with a menu entry and after insuring all above installed, worked on first try, including my mic which is usually problematic.
good luck
It didn’t for me either. I have installed the one that you can find in the following repository (with thanks to OldCPU …)
Index of /repositories/home:/broumbroum23/openSUSE_11.3_NonFree_standard
Add the repo. Install Skype with zypper (replace any version you had previous). Then remove that repository. That did it for me
AdMo
This worked well for me in opensuse 11.3 64bit
It worked for me as well and without an itch.
gm40, I suggest you remove the package, and reinstall again.
Also works well for me on 11.4 64bit
Thanks for all good advice! I followed ‘admoel’s’ recipe with good success after I had checked that all the libraries were there that ‘zuser’ listed. The only problem that still remains is that the video doesn’t adjust automatically to changed light conditions. So I have to go into ‘kopete’ to set them. That, however, is not taken happily by ‘skype’. The video vanishes. So I delete HOME/.skype/chatsync and it works again! How else can I adjust the video settings?
For me the problem is the webcam, the installation from broumbroum23 or skype’s site worked fine, but when I tried the webcam I have the jitterish black screen without any message from the terminal!!??.:sarcastic: With the workaround from sdb:skype for the black screen, the terminal returns “libv4l2: error turning on stream: Error de entrada/salida”
Any idea?
Opensuse11.4, 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop, KDE 4.6, GeForce GTX 570, 8 Gb RAM,
Hi.
I have found that if my video card (ATI Radeon) is not installed properly, SKYPE will not give any video output in spite of Cheese working.
Skype works fine for me on 64bit 11.4 with Phonon/PulseAudio, including the Webcam.
After installing the RPM provided by Skype.com for Suse, you just need to install a couple of 32-bit libraries, as pointed out above (run skype in console to see what is missing, or follow the guide linked above).
If your webcam does not work, it may be worth to check out whether it is working at all with other applications, such as Kopete.