From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 20:58:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383FC16A41F for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:58:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david@jetnet.co.uk) Received: from kosh.jetnet.co.uk (kosh.jetnet.co.uk [80.87.128.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA35543D66 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:58:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david@jetnet.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kosh.jetnet.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5E421D75; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:58:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kosh.jetnet.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.jetnet.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 71098-05; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:58:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.0.90] (82-69-108-39.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.108.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kosh.jetnet.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A46520AE5; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:58:44 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <43BAE584.9080307@jetnet.co.uk> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:58:44 +0000 From: David Reid User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051216) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Arno J. Klaassen" References: <20051231122034.599bbf8c.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20051231125158.GA830@funes.schapachnik.com.ar> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at jetnet.co.uk Cc: Fernando Schapachnik , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skype on FreeBSD / amd64 - what's the trick? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:58:58 -0000 Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > Fernando Schapachnik 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