Skype - problem with sound device

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:12:51 +1000
Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 15:57:21 +0200
> Zbigniew Komarnicki <cblasius at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have also problem with skype. When I try call to friend then I
> > obtain  following message: 
> > "Problem with sound device".
> > 
> > When I run skype from console I get the following message (when I
> > call): "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy"
> > 
> > On my Debian I haven't such problem. 
> > 
> > I also change, 
> > sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=8
> > 
> > as was in previous message about skype, but still is the problem
> > with sound  device.
> > 
> > From 'dmesg', I have:
> > 
> > pcm0: <nVidia nForce2 400> port 0xb000-0xb0ff,0xb400-0xb47f mem
> > 0xe8001000-0xe80 01fff irq 21 at device 6.0 on pci0
> > pcm0: <Avance Logic ALC655 AC97 Codec>
> 
> Hi Zbigniew,
> interestingly...i've had this problem a couple of times a few days
> ago. The first call would work fine, the following would not at all.
> Restarting skype would fix it, but then it'd stop working again.
> what kernel + world (from what day) are you running?
> mine is 
> FreeBSD ayiin.xxxxxxx.com.au 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #10: Sun
> Jul  1 09:50:58 EST 2007 
> 
> World from same day or a day or 2 earlier.
> pcm0 at pci0:27:0: class=0x040300 card=0x05b71014 chip=0x26688086
> rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High DefiNition Audio
>     Controller' class      = multimedia
> 
> Sound drivers from -STABLE. Skype 1.3 from ports.
> 

Show me the output of

#fstat|grep '\(\(dsp\|audio\|dspW\|mixer\)[0-9]\|\(snd\|midi\)stat\)'

.. before/after opening skype.


--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced
    and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........
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