Is Skype voice calling working for anyone? I get "Call failed: problem with audio playback"

[Jan Henrik Sylvester]

Yuri wrote:
 > Any time I am trying to make a call I get: "Call failed: problem with
 > audio playback"

Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING (20080318)? You should upgrade to 
compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 with linux_base-fc6. Maybe you might want 
to read the thread "linux 2.6 on 7.0-RELEASE" on freebsd-emulation 
first. First one this month: 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2008-June/thread.html

I get the same error message with compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2 (fc-4). 
Changing to the totally unsupported compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.20, skype 
seems to work. As far as I understood, this is just luck, because 2.4.2 
is the only supported 2.4 version and 2.6.16 the only (experimentally) 
supported 2.6 version. (Other Linux syscalls are not implemented.)

Unsurprisingly, I can reproducibly crash googleearth with 2.4.20, while 
it runs fine with 2.4.2 -- 2.4.20 really only helps skype.

For me, running evil skype in an unsupported setting is acceptable.

Cheers,
Jan Henrik