skype 1.4.0.118 need root privilege

[Beech Rintoul]

On Sunday 11 November 2007, Andrey Angelov said:
> Hello I use freebsd 6.2 few days before I portupgraded skype up to
> 1.4.0.118 it working fine but the problem is when I run it as
> non-root user I got "problem with audio playback" when I run it as
> root all working fine up to portupgrade I worked with 1.2.x and
> there was not any problems. I checked all permissions and all look
> fine. So what is the problem bug in skype or what ? I have no idea.

I've gotten a couple of reports on this with 6.2. FWIW, I tested this 
on 6-STABLE before I ported it and didn't have any problems running 
as a non privileged user, so the  problem may disappear with the 6.3 
release. I can't reproduce the problem, (all my boxen are 7.0 and 
above) so if anyone can track this down it would be appreciated. I 
hesitate to flag this for >7.0 and as the problem doesn't show up for 
everyone. This may need an entry in devfs.conf, but I'm not sure 
where to begin with that as other devices that use sound don't seem 
to have a problem.

Beech

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