Skype-1.4 on 6.2 (and 7.0-BETA1)

[Beech Rintoul]

On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Adi Pircalabu said:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:02:39 -0800 Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Luigi Rizzo said:
> > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:25:07PM +0100, 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 did test this on 6-stable and didn't find any problems.
> > However, skype is known not to play nicely with some sound cards.
>
> Hi Beach,
> you can find the output of "cat /dev/sndstat" for PR 117714 here:
> http://pircalabu.com/dev.sndstat.latitude.d520.txt
> Anything I can help with?

Your soundcard output looks ok. According to Skype this is supposed to 
be backwards compatible, but I'm starting to think not. Skype isn't 
noted for being very supportive outside the windows/linux world and 
the answer I got was "just upgrade to the latest linux distro" There 
are a couple of directions you can go. 1) Revert back to skype12 
until I get this all sorted out. The skype 12 port can be found here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~beech/source/skype12.tar.gz

Just replace your net/skype with that and either portdowngrade or 
build/install by hand. 2) you could try updating your linux_base to 
fc6 and see if that solves the problem. I don't want to force 6.x 
users to update to fc6 or mark this broken until I find out for sure 
what the problem is.

As I said earlier I am going to put skype12 back in the tree after the 
freeze.


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