Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:59:59 +0200 From: "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [solved] latest skype for linux (skype_static-2.1.0.81) Message-ID: <20110228085959.1deb6462@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D6A206C.4000907@freebsd.org> References: <4D6A206C.4000907@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:59:08 +0200 Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Just got latest Skype for linux _fully_ working via pulseaudio. > Details will follow, but here's couple of highlights. > > I. pulseaudio port as is seems to be unable to do recording at least > on my hardware. The problem is in how it (its oss plugin) uses mmap > on /dev/dsp. Disabling mmap use in source code allows microphone > recording to work. > > II. Trivial ports for linux-f10-pulseaudio-libs-0.9.14 and > linux-f10-libasyncns-0.7 need to be created and installed. > > III. Couple of kernel patches are needed for skype or linux pulse > audio client to be able to talk to FreeBSD pulseaudio daemon. > 1. http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linux-so_passcred.patch > 2. The _first_ patch from here > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=149168 Patch will need > massaging for amd64 and has some deficiencies, but it does seem to > work. > > My OS is sufficiently recent CURRENT/amd64. > what about webcamd+skype? -- wbr, tiger
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