ports/84745: Make the skype script hide the anoying messages about SOUND_MIXER_WRITE_IGAIN

Carlos A M dos Santos casantos at urisan.tche.br
Wed Aug 10 12:20:21 UTC 2005


>Number:         84745
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Make the skype script hide the anoying messages about SOUND_MIXER_WRITE_IGAIN
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 10 12:20:19 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Carlos A M dos Santos
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Universidade Regional Integrada
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD sophia.inf.urisan 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #1: Mon May 16 01:34:41 BRT 2005 root at avatar.casantos.org:/share/FreeBSD/5.4-RELEASE/src/sys/i386/compile/A7N266-VM i386
>Description:
	Skype shows 'volume_adjust: SOUND_MIXER_WRITE_IGAIN failed: No such
	device or address' thoousands of times. That is a very annoying
	bahavior that can not be disabled but can be hidden if the sandard
	output is redirected to /dev/null.
>How-To-Repeat:

	At the command prompt type:

	setenv SKYPE_RESOURCES_PATH /usr/X11R6/share/skype
	/usr/X11R6/bin/skype_bin
>Fix:

	Apply the attached patch

--- net::skype.patch begins here ---
diff -durP ports/net/skype/Makefile ports/net/skype/Makefile
--- ports.orig/net/skype/Makefile	Sat Jul 23 22:22:39 2005
+++ ports/net/skype/Makefile	Mon Aug  8 09:18:19 2005
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 do-install:
 	${INSTALL} ${WRKSRC}/skype ${PREFIX}/bin/skype_bin
-	${ECHO_CMD} -e "#!/bin/sh\n\nSKYPE_RESOURCES_PATH='${DATADIR}' exec skype_bin \"\$$@\"" >${PREFIX}/bin/skype
+	${ECHO_CMD} -e "#!/bin/sh\n\nSKYPE_RESOURCES_PATH='${DATADIR}' exec ${PREFIX}/bin/skype_bin \"\$$@\" > /dev/null 2>&1" >${PREFIX}/bin/skype
 	${CHMOD} a+rx ${PREFIX}/bin/skype
 .if ${HAVE_GNOME:Mgnomehier} != ""
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/skype.desktop ${PREFIX}/share/gnome/applications/
--- net::skype.patch ends here ---


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