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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:22:16 UTC
The branch main has been updated by rodrigo:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=e073401284ef34e04cd76146efbaee7154825077
commit e073401284ef34e04cd76146efbaee7154825077
Author: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: 2025-04-08 12:36:50 +0000
Commit: Rodrigo Osorio <rodrigo@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-08-22 19:16:48 +0000
net-im/zoom: pkg-message updates
Update and modernize pkg-message
- webcamd has no -H flag, support for hald was removed in 2021[1]
- Mount of devfs is automated by the linux service
- Reword things slightly.
[1] https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/multimedia/webcamd/Makefile?id=8198bb27695b
Reported by: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/370
Approved by: portmgr (blanket)
---
net-im/zoom/pkg-message | 35 +++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net-im/zoom/pkg-message b/net-im/zoom/pkg-message
index f7adf70436f1..787cc5e9c5dd 100644
--- a/net-im/zoom/pkg-message
+++ b/net-im/zoom/pkg-message
@@ -3,33 +3,24 @@
message: <<EOM
You installed Zoom: A video conferencing client.
-CAVEAT: Sound doesn't yet work in Zoom on FreeBSD.
+CAVEAT: Sound does not yet work in Zoom on FreeBSD.
In order to run Zoom you need:
-1. Linux emulation enabled. For this you should execute:
- # sysrc linux_enable=YES
- and reboot and/or execute:
- # kldload linux
-2. Have devfs mounted for the Linux emulator.
- For this you should execute:
- # mount -t devfs none /compat/linux/dev
- and reboot and/or add this line to /etc/fstab:
- devfs /compat/linux/dev devfs rw 0 0
-3. Have Linux OpenGL package for your video card is installed.
- It could be one of linux-nvidia-libs*, etc.
- Enable a port option corresponding to your OpenGL driver, if applicable.
- Try running with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 if zoom crashes because of OpenGL.
-4. Have multimedia/webcamd installed and running. The usual way to
- start webcamd is to have these two lines in /etc/rc.conf:
- webcamd_enable="YES"
- webcamd_flags="-H"
-Zoom stores configuration values in ~/.config/zoomus.conf, some
-of which you can adjust.
+1. Linux emulation:
+ # service linux enable && service linux start
+2. multimedia/webcamd installed, then start its daemon:
+ # service webcamd enable && service webcamd start
+3. a Linux OpenGL package for your video card. It could be one of
+ linux-nvidia-libs*, etc. Enable a port option corresponding to your
+ OpenGL driver, if applicable. If zoom crashes because of OpenGL, try
+ running with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
+
+Configuration file: ~/.config/zoomus.conf
If you have linux-c7-pulseaudio-libs or linux-c7-alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
-installed and zoom asserts in pulseaudio, please change system.audio.type
-to "alsa" in ~/.config/zoomus.conf
+installed and Zoom asserts in PulseAudio, please change system.audio.type
+to "alsa" in the configuration file.
EOM
}