skype 2.1.0.81; alternate versions of the Linuxolator v4l2 patches

[Daniele Mazzotti]

Hi,

well audio is now working. What is not working is the microphone. I
have made a call test but my mic is mute. I have searched the Internet
to find a solution but I am still stuck here! Perhaps an oss issue?

Have you got any suggestion or information I can provide in order to
help me and get it working?

Regards,
Daniele.

2011/5/22 Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de>:
> In article <BANLkTinv-iKszN7cJhfhCcU59cAqms1gBA at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>>Hi all.
> Hi!  (sorry for the late reply...)
>>
>>I am sorry to bother you all again. I made some progresses here. I
>>have succesfully managed to run my webcam inside skype. I have
>>basically followed the main steps to get my webcam working outside
>>skype (e.g. cuse4bsd, webcamd and pwcview, I am sorry I am too lazy to
>>write all the passages...) and then I made the following:
>>
>>[User at Fermi:/home/User]> su
>>[Root at Fermi:/home/User]> kldload linux_v4l2wrapper
>>
>>and after then, as normal user run
>>
>>[User at Fermi:/home/User]> skype --resources=$PWD/skype_static-2.1.0.81 &
>>
>>which made my webcam available and working. By the way I have these
>>warnings comparing on my command prompt
>>
>>[User at Fermi:/home/User]> libv4lcontrol: error creating shm segment
>>failed: Function not implemented
>>libv4lcontrol: falling back to malloc-ed memory for controls
>>libv4lcontrol: error creating shm segment failed: Function not implemented
>>libv4lcontrol: falling back to malloc-ed memory for controls
>>libv4lcontrol: error creating shm segment failed: Function not implemented
>>libv4lcontrol: falling back to malloc-ed memory for controls
>>
>>and if I try to run pwcview from the command line I only get a window
>>opening and closing immediately telling me this:
>>
>>[User at Fermi:/home/User]> pwcview
>>Webcam set to: 320x240 (sif) at 5 fps
>>libv4l2: error reading: Invalid argument
>>Error reading from webcam: Invalid argument
>>
>>I am however able to see the output of my webcam. I do not know if
>>this can be of use to you but I think this is a good step forward.
>
> [this was already answered, you probably need to kldload sysvshm]
>
>> I
>>am actually having troubles with audio devices and skype calls but I
>>will try get rid of those problems tomorrow.
>>
>  And in case this is still a problem, instead of upgrading from -release
> to -stable you can also try manually applying only the sound.ko fix,
>
>        http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=221583
>
> i.e. apply the patch from here:
>
>        http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/sys/dev/sound/pcm/dsp.c?view=patch&r1=221583&r2=221582&pathrev=221583
>
> and rebuild and reload your sound.ko, you can do something like this:
>
>        # cd /usr/src
>        # fetch -o - 'http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/sys/dev/sound/pcm/dsp.c?view=patch&r1=221583&r2=221582&pathrev=221583' |patch -p2
>                [obviously needs kernel source installed]
>        # cd sys/modules/sound/sound
>        # make DEBUG_FLAGS=-g install
>        # kldunload snd_hda
>                [or whichever driver you are using; stop apps using sound first]
>        # kldload sound
>        # kldload snd_hda
>
>  HTH,
>        Juergen
>