From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 13:25:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A61E16A41F for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:25:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36FD13C43E for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:25:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 15585 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2007 08:25:16 -0500 Received: from 203-206-236-35.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (203.206.236.35) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 9 Jul 2007 08:25:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 23:25:13 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: FreeBSD Multimedia ML Message-ID: <20070709232513.48dbed4e@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070709231650.695420a8@localhost> References: <20070709231650.695420a8@localhost> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Skype 1.4 Beta + Alsa sound X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:25:17 -0000 On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 23:16:50 +1000 Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hello everyone, > I've been tinkering with skype 1.4 Beta for Linux. It works pretty much out of the box. I sorted out the dependencies, it launches, works fine *except* for the fact that, because it uses ALSA, it doesn't detect any audio device at all (so, it works for text chats, it should work fine for data transfer, but voip is no go). > > Any idea how to work around this, other than call them an ask them to not use alsa? Is there any library that wraps alsa calls and translates them into [something that works] ? > > /usr/home/betom/Numard_Stuff/Downloads/skype_static-1.4.0.74 Would the solution presented here still work in -STABLE? Any caveats / issues with this approach? http://freebsd.monkey.org/freebsd-multimedia/200606/msg00153.html thanks! _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Linux is for people who hate Windows, BSD is for people who love UNIX. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.