Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:21:02 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Paris Jones <arckeda@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux emluation of Skype not complete. Message-ID: <4614B16E.1020004@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <131606.15840.qm@web63412.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <131606.15840.qm@web63412.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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Paris Jones wrote: > > > */Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>/* wrote: > > Paris Jones wrote: > > I am using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable. > > > > My friend told me about Skype and was very egar to try it, to my > dismay the port of Skype will only accept one device for audio > input and output, (Which my headset requires) and I would rather > not mess with the DSP hijacker so I installed the linux build for > skype.com (The static with QT compiled in) but was also upset to > find that I could not call or receive calls from anyone. I am > using the linux_base-8, if someone could tell me how I can start > calling people it would be very useful, I have read maybe 2 > articles about this on google and both tell me to install ports > that no longer exist. > > > > Thank you again. > > -ARCKEDA > > > That's because OSS by itself doesn't support more than one channel > at a > time. You need to support virtual channels (a FreeBSD only feature > AFAIK) by entering in the following lines in /etc/sysctl.conf: > > hw.snd.maxautovchans = 20 # Adjust to fit the number of simultaneous > sound channels you want enabled at once. > > -Garrett > > I don't think that multiple sound channels are the problem. You see, > in the port, > > there is only one sound device I can choose, even though my headset > outputs to > > /dev/dsp and gets input from /dev/dsp1, so that I can only talk or > hear, not both at > > the same time. The linux build will not even let me call anyone or > recieve calls, > > not even the call testing service. > > Please feel free to tell me any thing that you think might help. > > -ARCKEDA > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yes, it's most likely the problem if you can't play multiple audio sources at once. Just please try my suggestion before saying it's not possible. -Garrett
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