skype webcam no device found

[Alejandro Imass]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> El día Thursday, April 01, 2010 a las 06:42:20AM -0400, Alejandro Imass escribió:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But
>> > skype tells me 'no device found' for video.
>> >
>>
>> How did you get Skype to run? The current port (in FBSD 8) is pointing
>> to a file no longer provided by Skype and the linux compat stuff was a
>> bit confusing when I tried to do it by hand.
>>
>> > I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview running,
>> > also as root, _and_ restarting webcamd each time, but no joy.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions very gratefully received.
>
> Skype from the ports runs fine in:
>
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD current.Sisis.de 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #5: Sun Jan 10 09:55:14 CET 2010     guru at current.Sisis.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> $ pkg_info | fgrep skype
> skype-2.0.0.72,1    P2P VoIP software
> $
>
> including a webCam based on pwc(4) kernel mod;
>
>        matthias
>

Well not in my system:

lucifer# uname -a
FreeBSD lucifer.yabarana.com 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat
Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009
root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64


lucifer# make install clean
===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found

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ATTENTION!

Skype requires at least linux_base-fc6
which is NOT default at this time.
If you don't have that version or above installed,
hit 'control c' now!

Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING 20080318
for update and install instructions.
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=> skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in
/usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://download.skype.com/linux/.
fetch: http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2:
Not Found
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2:
File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net/skype.


Best,
Alejandro Imass

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