Is ALSA support working in 72?

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Monday 31 August 2009 21:56:50 Yuri wrote:
> I tried new skype-2.1.0.47 on FreBSD-72. (I have 
> linux-alsa-lib-1.0.10.3_2 installed.)
> 
> Skype starts but gives the errors below when I try to make a voice call.
> Previous versions of Skype came in OSS flavor but now it seems to be 
> dropped and it's only available for ALSA.
> 
> Why would ALSA library fail?
> 
> ----- errrors -----
> 
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function 
> snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat 
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer 
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function 
> snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat 
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer 
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> /usr/ports/distfiles/skype_static-2.1.0.47/skype: relocation error: 
> /usr/ports/distfiles/skype_static-2.1.0.47/skype: symbol 
> snd_device_name_hint, version ALSA_0.9 not defined in file 
> libasound.so.2 with link time reference

ALSA has never worked AFAIK. The library is only there for applications
that link to it, but don't actually use it. It might be worth a try to
install the alsa-plugins-oss RPM and then configure ALSA lib to use the
FreeBSD OSS device.