skype webcam no device found

[Chris Whitehouse]

Alejandro Imass wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
>> El día Thursday, April 01, 2010 a las 06:42:20AM -0400, Alejandro Imass escribió:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But
>>>> skype tells me 'no device found' for video.
>>>>
>>> How did you get Skype to run? The current port (in FBSD 8) is pointing
>>> to a file no longer provided by Skype and the linux compat stuff was a
>>> bit confusing when I tried to do it by hand.
>>>
>>>> I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview running,
>>>> also as root, _and_ restarting webcamd each time, but no joy.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions very gratefully received.
>> Skype from the ports runs fine in:
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> FreeBSD current.Sisis.de 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #5: Sun Jan 10 09:55:14 CET 2010     guru at current.Sisis.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>> $ pkg_info | fgrep skype
>> skype-2.0.0.72,1    P2P VoIP software
>> $
>>
>> including a webCam based on pwc(4) kernel mod;
>>
>>        matthias
>>
> 
> Well not in my system:
> 
> lucifer# uname -a
> FreeBSD lucifer.yabarana.com 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat
> Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009
> root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> 
> lucifer# make install clean
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> 
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> ATTENTION!
> 
> Skype requires at least linux_base-fc6

I have linux_base-f10-10_2 and skype-2.0.0.72,1 (net/skype) installed 
from ports and it just worked - but so far without video and sound.

FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar 24 i386

Chris


> which is NOT default at this time.
> If you don't have that version or above installed,
> hit 'control c' now!
> 
> Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING 20080318
> for update and install instructions.
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> 
> => skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in
> /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch from http://download.skype.com/linux/.
> fetch: http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2:
> Not Found
> => Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2:
> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/net/skype.
> 
> 
> Best,
> Alejandro Imass
> 
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