Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:58:44 +0000 From: David Reid <david@jetnet.co.uk> To: "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> Cc: Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@schapachnik.com.ar>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skype on FreeBSD / amd64 - what's the trick? Message-ID: <43BAE584.9080307@jetnet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <wp64p246rx.fsf@heho.labo> References: <20051231122034.599bbf8c.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20051231125158.GA830@funes.schapachnik.com.ar> <wp64p246rx.fsf@heho.labo>
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Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@schapachnik.com.ar> writes: > > >>En un mensaje anterior, Torfinn Ingolfsen escribió: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I tried to install Skype on my amd64 machine, running FreeBSD >>>6.0-stable: >>>root@kg-quiet# uname -a >>>FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #1: Thu Dec 22 >>>06:29:24 CET 2005 root@kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET >>>amd64 >>> >>>Looking at the makefile, I could see that the port was supposed to work >>>on both i386 and amd64, adn thought the install would go smoothly. >>>Boy, was I wrong. >>> >>>It seems that the port net/skype depends on graphics/linux_dri, but the >>>latter (linux_dri) is i386 only. >>>So, what's the trick to get Skype installed on amd64? >> >>If you have a 32-bit linux environment in place, just comment the >>i386 only line of the linux_dri Makefile. It worked for me and skype >>works fine. > > > there seem to be serious problems on many configurations with linux_dri > on amd64; > I just made a symlink libGL.so.1 -> libX11.so.6 > in /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib; this make Skype happy (which > does not seem to need reel GL functionality, just a valid libGL.so.1 > to start-up) and prevents my linux-apps which really use GL to bomb. I tried this and it worked! Now, if I can just figure out why my microphone doesn't work with it I'll have a working skype setup. Microphone doesn't seem to work under i386 either, so must be some setting I'm not getting right I guess... Thanks for the tip! david
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