Skype - problem with sound device

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:07:16 +0200
Zbigniew Komarnicki <cblasius at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 06 of July 2007 11:43:01 you wrote:
> > > Before:
> > > # fstat|grep
> > > # '\(\(dsp\|audio\|dspW\|mixer\)[0-9]\|\(snd\|midi\)stat\)'
> > > zbyszek     kdeinit    88649   10 /dev         37 crw-rw-rw- 
> > > mixer0 rw zbyszek     artsd      87899    9 /dev         38
> > > crw-rw-rw- dsp0.0 rw
> >
> >          ^^
> >
> > Looks like artsd consuming your record channel, which is why skype
> > fail to grab it for its own purpose. You have to disable artsd.
> 
> When I disabled artsd, skype works.  Thank you.
> 
> Now, after start skype I have
> # fstat | grep
> # '\(\(dsp\|audio\|dspW\|mixer\)[0-9]\|\(snd\|midi\)stat\)'
> zbyszek     skype_bin  68381   30 /dev         37 crw-rw-rw-  mixer0
> rw zbyszek     skype_bin  68381   31 /dev         38 crw-rw-rw- 
> dsp0.0 rw zbyszek     skype_bin  67507   30 /dev         37
> crw-rw-rw-  mixer0 rw zbyszek     skype_bin  67507   31 /dev        
> 38 crw-rw-rw-  dsp0.0 rw zbyszek     skype_bin  67506   30 /dev     
>    37 crw-rw-rw-  mixer0 rw
> zbyszek     skype_bin  67506   31 /dev         38 crw-rw-rw-  dsp0.0
> rw zbyszek     skype_bin  67505   30 /dev         37 crw-rw-rw- 
> mixer0 rw zbyszek     skype_bin  67505   31 /dev         38
> crw-rw-rw-  dsp0.0 rw zbyszek     skype_bin  66961   30 /dev        
> 37 crw-rw-rw-  mixer0 rw zbyszek     skype_bin  66961   31 /dev     
>    38 crw-rw-rw-  dsp0.0 rw
> zbyszek     skype_bin  65863   30 /dev         37 crw-rw-rw-  mixer0
> rw zbyszek     skype_bin  65863   31 /dev         38 crw-rw-rw- 
> dsp0.0 rw zbyszek     kdeinit    88649   10 /dev         37
> crw-rw-rw-  mixer0 rw
> 
> 
> I have a question. Is possible to use skype without disabling artsd,
> in my  case? In Debian it works, so I suppose that it must work, but
> how to do it  under FreeBSD? 
> 

Not possible with 6.x, unless you willing to apply patch or
using binary modules from http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ .

This is not an issue anymore for -current or future 7.x.


> Thank you a lot Ariff ! 
> 
> Best regards :-)
> Zbyszek
> 
> 
> 
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--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

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