Skype-1.4 on 6.2 (and 7.0-BETA1)

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Beech Rintoul-5 wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Andriy Gapon said:
>> on 31/10/2007 12:36 Stefan Lambrev said the following:
>> > Hi Jan,
>> >
>> > Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
>> >> Before, I had skype-1.2.0.18_4 on 6.2, which worked.
>> >>
>> >> Today, I portupgraded to skype-1.4.0.118.
>> >>
>> >> Now I only get: "Call Failed. Problem with Audio Playback".
>> >>
>> >> I killed artsd and increased hw.snd.maxautovchans and
>> >> autovchans, but nothing helped.
>> >>
>> >> Is the new version of Skype supposed to work on 6.2-RELEASE?
>> >>
>> >> For comparison, I rebooted into my test install of 7.0-BETA1 and
>> >> installed skype-1.4.0.118 there. Starting skype gave me:
>> >>
>> >> skype: error while loading shared libraries:
>> >> /usr/lib/librt.so.1: ELF file OS ABI invalid
>> >>
>> >> I solved that problem with a solution from emulation (about
>> >> matlab):
>> >>
>> >> compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 -> 2.4.20
>> >>
>> >> Is this expected? (I guess this question should go on
>> >> emulation.)
>> >>
>> >> Anyhow, sound works on 7.0-BETA1.
>> >
>> > 20071030:
>> >   AFFECTS: users of net/skype
>> >   AUTHOR: beech at FreeBSD.org
>> >
>> >   The skype port has been upgraded to version 1.4.0.118. This
>> > requires a sysctl
>> >   change to run. After upgrading, please do: "sysctl
>> > compat.linux.osrelease=2.6"
>> >   from a terminal. Also add: "compat.linux.osrelease=2.6" to your
>> >   /etc/sysctl.conf  to make this change at boot time. Also,
>> > net/skype-devel has
>> >   been removed from the ports tree. All skype users are
>> > encouraged to update to
>> >   the latest version.
>> >
>> > I personally jumped for linux_base-f7 and linuxolator 2.6, I have
>> > installed and linux_dri
>> > and new skype seems to work perfect.
>>
>> BTW, is linux_base-f7 a requirement too ?
>> Because on FreeBSD 6.2 fc4 is the default now and skype 1.4.X (from
>> the port, of course) doesn't work for me, either with the default
>> or with 2.6 value of compat.linux.osrelease. With 2.4.2 I get the
>> same problem as Jan: "Call Failed. Problem with Audio Playback" for
>> any attempt to call. With 2.6 skype simply didn't start with a
>> message like "Can not setup LDT for thread something...".
> 
> I did test this on 6.x with no problems, however Skype has a long 
> history of not playing nicely with some sound cards. I am planning to 
> put a skype12 legacy version in the tree after the freeze. My advice 
> would be to stick with skype12 if you're having problems. 
> 
>>
>> BTW, there is a different question that I have and maybe another
>> part to my situation. My system is actually FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p6
>> amd64, emphasis on amd64. So now you see what can add to my skype
>> problems. And here's the question: our linuxolator emulates i386
>> Linux even on amd64, is there any reason that skype port has only
>> i386 in the allowed archs ? The same question goes for any ports it
>> depends on and that have the same restriction (if any).
>> WITH_NVIDIA_GL is of course not applicable to amd64, bit otherwise,
>> in my understanding, everything should. Am I missing something
>> important ?
> 
> Skype positively will not work on FreeBSD 64 bit. The forums are full 
> of people screaming for a 64 bit linux version and the only success 
> has been on ubuntu using their 32 bit compatibility layer. Even with 
> that the results were less than optimal. I'm sure sooner later they 
> will release one, but getting them to release a 64 bit oss version is 
> uncertain. If someone is successful at getting Skype to work on amd64 
> I definitely would like to know. Ubuntu has a /usr/lib32 dir for this 
> kind of problem. Maybe someone with some time and libmap.conf foo can 
> look into it.
> 
> 
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Hm new skype very fun. IT NOT WORKING FINE!!! I am with freebsd 6.2 and when
I run it as non-root user sound not working the sound work fine when I run
it as root.
and p.s do not say it is permission problem because this is not true.
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