Linux emluation of Skype not complete.

[Garrett Cooper]

Paris Jones wrote:
> I am using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable.
>
> My friend told me about Skype and was very egar to try it, to my dismay the port of Skype will only accept one device for audio input and output, (Which my headset requires) and I would rather not mess with the DSP hijacker so I installed the linux build for skype.com (The static with QT compiled in) but was also upset to find that I could not call or receive calls from anyone.  I am using the linux_base-8, if someone could tell me how I can start calling people it would be very useful, I have read maybe 2 articles about this on google and both tell me to install ports that no longer exist.
>
>  Thank you again.
>                                                                                                                                                                     -ARCKEDA
>   
That's because OSS by itself doesn't support more than one channel at a 
time. You need to support virtual channels (a FreeBSD only feature 
AFAIK) by entering in the following lines in /etc/sysctl.conf:

hw.snd.maxautovchans = 20 # Adjust to fit the number of simultaneous 
sound channels you want enabled at once.

-Garrett