Linux Skype 4.0.0.8 on FreeBSD is works!

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 13:54:14 +0200
Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:

> El día Saturday, June 22, 2013 a las 03:54:20PM +0200, Matthias Apitz
> escribió:
> 
> > El día Saturday, June 22, 2013 a las 03:45:32PM +0200, Juergen Lock
> > escribió:
> > 
> > > > I don't understand this, I'm on SVN head with my kernel,
> > > > exactly on r250588 (as of May 13, I think):
> > > > 
> > > Those are just the revisions where the Linux pipe2 syscall was
> > > added, if you have a later checkout you should be fine.
> > 
> > Meanwhile the kernel compiled and booted fine; and the cam is now
> > working in /compat/linux/skype_staticQT-4.0.0.8/skype

I just committed the new header to -current. If someone would be so
nice to remind me to MFC it after the new release of FreeBSD 9 is
cut... (if desired)

> The cam is working, but audio calls (also to the Skype's echo service)
> are failing after the first or second test call; during the call to
> echo only incoming UDP is to be seen with TCPDUMP, no outbound UDP.
> There mus be something wrong with the emulation of the audio ioctl's,
> it seems.
> 
> In messages are line like this:

> Jun 23 10:20:25 La-Habana kernel: linux: pid 1579 (Backbone): ioctl
> fd=39, cmd=0x8b01 ('<8b>',1) is not implemented

The audio part could be a fallout of this, but someone would have to
check the linux ioctls what this is to be sure.

Bye,
Alexander.

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