From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 21:19:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079BE16A406 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:19:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arckeda@yahoo.com) Received: from web63414.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web63414.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.97.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF0F913C45E for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:19:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arckeda@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 6774 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Apr 2007 21:19:34 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=k/PiK5x4Kyz3LrL8xPgetsdbmBY353ZMD5cWxocoYaYsHtuF0e6p6HAhqtsmbpSsgLeIKdYvOg/0eQVhC4FSDn1AwA3DTRUdfHj6Em9bYEer3ef0f4dwaUIemWCWmDpKjG5fOaFNXTxDxkjx4t5UM6qws9XVA1if9nuUUrU1fFI=; X-YMail-OSG: _MPsUWwVM1nhcJPYeQenuTH0cO587OpW_QAKjwPu157uZtUEDYmCr40CI8EJOQgarWQjYiroFWpF1cjruvyuRhzjelYW6diFAALsTtyuJDLIM7BMXuWa7v6p_z4i Received: from [64.105.71.107] by web63414.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:19:34 PDT Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:19:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Paris Jones To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4614B16E.1020004@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <255828.6676.qm@web63414.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Linux emluation of Skype not complete. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:19:35 -0000 Garrett Cooper wrote: Paris Jones wrote: > > > */Garrett Cooper /* wrote: > > Paris Jones wrote: > > I am using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable. > > > > My friend told me about Skype and was very egar to try it, to my > dismay the port of Skype will only accept one device for audio > input and output, (Which my headset requires) and I would rather > not mess with the DSP hijacker so I installed the linux build for > skype.com (The static with QT compiled in) but was also upset to > find that I could not call or receive calls from anyone. I am > using the linux_base-8, if someone could tell me how I can start > calling people it would be very useful, I have read maybe 2 > articles about this on google and both tell me to install ports > that no longer exist. > > > > Thank you again. > > -ARCKEDA > > > That's because OSS by itself doesn't support more than one channel > at a > time. You need to support virtual channels (a FreeBSD only feature > AFAIK) by entering in the following lines in /etc/sysctl.conf: > > hw.snd.maxautovchans = 20 # Adjust to fit the number of simultaneous > sound channels you want enabled at once. > > -Garrett > > I don't think that multiple sound channels are the problem. You see, > in the port, > > there is only one sound device I can choose, even though my headset > outputs to > > /dev/dsp and gets input from /dev/dsp1, so that I can only talk or > hear, not both at > > the same time. The linux build will not even let me call anyone or > recieve calls, > > not even the call testing service. > > Please feel free to tell me any thing that you think might help. > > -ARCKEDA > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>Yes, it's most likely the problem if you can't play multiple audio >>sources at once. >> >>Just please try my suggestion before saying it's not possible. >> >> -Garrett I am afraid that playing multiple audio sources is not my problem, the problem is I don't have the option to select more than one source at a time in the Skype native port. In the linux build, I have that option, but I can't call or receive calls from anyone. Thank you. -ARCKEDA --------------------------------- Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games.