From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 31 07:45:56 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 7A99416A402 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:45:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@bsam.ru) Received: from mail.kuban.ru (mail.kuban.ru [62.183.66.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F28C913C483 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:45:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@bsam.ru) Received: from bsam.ru ([85.172.12.103]) by mail.kuban.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id l2V7jdgn021018; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:45:49 +0400 (MSD) Received: from bsam by bsam.ru with local (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HXYHA-0000EZ-SO; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:45:28 +0400 To: Andriy Babiy References: <200703281944.58223.ABabiy@shaw.ca> <200703292301.29197.ABabiy@shaw.ca> <02755522@bsam.ru> <200703302313.00077.ABabiy@shaw.ca> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:45:28 +0400 In-Reply-To: <200703302313.00077.ABabiy@shaw.ca> (Andriy Babiy's message of "Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:12:59 -0700") Message-ID: <79533703@bsam.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: Boris Samorodov Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: skype replacement 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: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:45:56 -0000 On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:12:59 -0700 Andriy Babiy wrote: > > > > > Since skype requires some i386 binary, it doesn't build on amd64. > > > > > > > > Where did you manage to get the sources? > > > > Why didn't you give a try to use the port (/usr/ports/net/skype)? > > > > It works just fine at amd64 (COMPAT_IA32 and COMPAT_LINUX32 > > > > should be used for kernel configuration). > > > > > > Thank you. I didn't know about those parameters. I'll give it a try. > > > > Well, there are the defaults and are presented at the GENERIC kernel. > > To answer your question. The default (GENERIC) kernel should use i386 > > binaries, can't say about kernel modules though. > It should work, but it didn't. As I didn't touch those parameters, they > were present in my kernel configuration. Is there anything else I should > set or configure? Just in case, if someone can have a look at my kernel > config and advise me, please find it attached. > Thank you. Well, so far so good. You didn't show any error messages and any diagnostics. I even can't understand your "it doesn't build on amd64". Did you give it a try (to install from the port)? Have you got any error messages? Does your sound card work with FreeBSD applications? Which version of FreeBSD do you run? WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve