Re: skype Failed: "Problem with Audio Plaback"

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

> Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > Anyone using skype?
>
> Newer versions of skype require a Linux 2.6 kernel with updated libraries for 
> audio to work.
>
> cube@ and I made some progress against skype 2.0, to the point where audio 
> would sometimes work, but our NPTL emulation is still incomplete so it was 
> quite crash-happy.
>
> It appears to require a few things:
>
>  1. Newer libraries (I created a fedora-6 package for this).
>  2. The kernel needs to report itself as Linux 2.6.18 or so.
>  3. Bunch of new emulated syscalls in COMPAT_LINUX.

        Is anyone else interested in contributing to a bounty for
        getting Skype working under NetBSD? Not that it would be
        more than a thankyou for those doing the work, but I'd
        happily put $50 towards it...

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