Subject: Re: Testers for wip/skype wanted
To: pkgsrc-users <pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org>
From: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 10/12/2007 17:26:46
On 12/10/2007, Johnny C. Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org> wrote:
> Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> > On 12/10/2007, Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> a new version of skype has been released, this time with OSS support,
> >> which should greatly benefit NetBSD. However, when I tried using it (on
> >> NetBSD-4.99.30), it crashed with the following message:
> >>
> >>          terminate called after throwing an instance of 'RtError'
> >
> > I have it running on 4.99.32, but I can't get the mike to work - when
> > I try to dial out,  it complains that it cannot open the recording
> > device. The setup does not allow me to change the device from /dev/dsp
> > (which is not present on NetBSD)
>
> The suse100_base package should be populating an /emul/linux/dev
> directory on your machine, with /emul/linux/dev/dsp a symlink to
> "audio".  If that didn't happen when you installed suse100_base (from
> before the big emulator rototill in pkgsrc), then you should try to
> populate that directory by hand.

I was a bit confused - the output is also defined as /dev/dsp in
skype, and it works; it is recording that doesn't - but I will try
later.

>
>         Cheers,
>
>         -- Johnny C. Lam
>