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Subject: Re: SKYPE Sound Problems
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On Friday 17 December 2004 09:26 am, Michael Nottebrock 
<michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Friday, 17. December 2004 18:06, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> > > Try adding some virtual channels (e.g. "sysctl
> > > hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=2").
> >
> > I hope I'm not butting in here, but what exactly does that do? Does
> > that allow more than one program to use the sound device?
>
> It enables additional devices.
>
> > If so, could that
> > also be enabled in /boot/device.hints?
>
> /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> Also see
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup
>.html, section 7.2.3

OK, thanks. I remember reading that, but I wasn't sure how to enable it 
using a system file. Until now, I'd been doing killall artsd to use 
esound apps.

- jt