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Date:      Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:22:56 -0400
From:      Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>
Subject:   Re: skype webcam no device found
Message-ID:  <s2xa14066a01004010422vdfdc9541zfa98d8d8335e2ff6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100401105321.GA8766@current.Sisis.de>
References:  <4BB3CBA8.10804@onetel.com> <o2wa14066a01004010342nf26fe66z6ba1399629797dec@mail.gmail.com> <20100401105321.GA8766@current.Sisis.de>

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On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:
> El d=EDa Thursday, April 01, 2010 a las 06:42:20AM -0400, Alejandro Imass=
 escribi=F3:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> w=
rote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But
>> > skype tells me 'no device found' for video.
>> >
>>
>> How did you get Skype to run? The current port (in FBSD 8) is pointing
>> to a file no longer provided by Skype and the linux compat stuff was a
>> bit confusing when I tried to do it by hand.
>>
>> > I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview ru=
nning,
>> > also as root, _and_ restarting webcamd each time, but no joy.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions very gratefully received.
>
> Skype from the ports runs fine in:
>
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD current.Sisis.de 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #5: Sun Jan 10 0=
9:55:14 CET 2010 =A0 =A0 guru@current.Sisis.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC=
 i386
> $ pkg_info | fgrep skype
> skype-2.0.0.72,1 =A0 =A0P2P VoIP software
> $
>
> including a webCam based on pwc(4) kernel mod;
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0matthias
>

Well not in my system:

lucifer# uname -a
FreeBSD lucifer.yabarana.com 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat
Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009
root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64


lucifer# make install clean
=3D=3D=3D>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
ATTENTION!

Skype requires at least linux_base-fc6
which is NOT default at this time.
If you don't have that version or above installed,
hit 'control c' now!

Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING 20080318
for update and install instructions.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

=3D> skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in
/usr/ports/distfiles/.
=3D> Attempting to fetch from http://download.skype.com/linux/.
fetch: http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2:
Not Found
=3D> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distf=
iles/.
fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/skype_static-2.0.0=
.72-oss.tar.bz2:
File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=3D> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
=3D> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net/skype.


Best,
Alejandro Imass

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