Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:25:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Thinkpad w500 microphone with Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)
Message-ID:  <1325543145.8536.YahooMailNeo@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F00DF83.9050505@computer.org>
References:  <4F00C6EC.30100@computer.org> <201201011323.46165.lyubomir@grigorovl.eu> <4F00DF83.9050505@computer.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
=0A=0A =0A=0A________________________________=0A=0AFrom: Eric Schuele <e.sc=
huele@computer.org>=0ATo: Lyubomir Grigorov <lyubomir@grigorovl.eu> =0ACc: =
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org =0ASent: Sunday, January 1, 2012 5:34 PM=0ASu=
bject: Re: Thinkpad w500 microphone with Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)=0A=0A=
=0AOn 01/01/2012 15:23, Lyubomir Grigorov wrote:=0A> I assume you are using=
 Skype with linuxator? In this case, are the sound =0A> devices in Skype se=
t to "OSS"? From the PC-BSD forum, the following got sound =0A> working for=
 me, since OSS wasn't showing as an option:=0A=0Ahmm.=A0 well. thats a good=
 quesiton (with linuxulator?) now that you=0Amention it.=0AThe port is mark=
ed BROKEN.=A0 and if you unmark it as such you can't get=0Athe distfiles.=
=A0 So I pulled them off a machine I had it one from some=0Atime (years?) b=
ack and built it.=A0 It built fine.=A0 Runs fine.=A0 Digging=0Ainto var/db/=
pkg/skype* ... +CONTENTS says linux this and that....=A0 so=0AI'd dare to s=
ay yes then.=0A=0AThere does not seem to be a config option in Skype that I=
 can find to=0Aset it to use OSS.=A0 Just says '/dev/dsp' and /dev/dsp0'.=
=0A=0A> =0A> # pkg_add -r linux-f10-alsa-plugins-oss=0A> # cp /compat/linux=
/etc/alsa/pcm/pcm-oss.conf-dist =0A>=A0 /compat/linux/etc/alsa/pcm/=0A> =0A=
=0AI'm not seeing the above in the ports tree.=A0 :/=0A=0A> Lyubomir Grigor=
ov (bgalakazam)=0A=0A=0AHard to believe that ThinkPads are still in existen=
ce. The overpriced computers that=A0so many folks just=A0had to have back i=
n=A0the mid to late 1990's. I recall one=A0lawyer I worked for paid over $7=
,000=A0USD for his=A0ThinkPad and that=A015 years ago when the dollar was s=
till ahead of the=A0Euro. Everybody wanted one because of those three magic=
 lettters, "IBM". And I=A0always thought that was=A0funny because IBM made =
very little if any of the parts that went into a=A0ThinkPad laptop.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1325543145.8536.YahooMailNeo>