Skype - problem with sound device

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:50:04 +0200
Zbigniew Komarnicki <cblasius at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 06 of July 2007 10:29:34 you wrote:
> > Show me the output of
> >
> > #fstat|grep
> > #'\(\(dsp\|audio\|dspW\|mixer\)[0-9]\|\(snd\|midi\)stat\)'
> >
> > .. before/after opening skype.
> 
> Before:
> # fstat|grep
> # '\(\(dsp\|audio\|dspW\|mixer\)[0-9]\|\(snd\|midi\)stat\)'
> zbyszek     kdeinit    88649   10 /dev         37 crw-rw-rw-  mixer0
> rw zbyszek     artsd      87899    9 /dev         38 crw-rw-rw- 
> dsp0.0 rw
         ^^
> 

Looks like artsd consuming your record channel, which is why skype
fail to grab it for its own purpose. You have to disable artsd.


> and after:
> # fstat | grep
> # '\(\(dsp\|audio\|dspW\|mixer\)[0-9]\|\(snd\|midi\)stat\)'
> zbyszek     skype_bin  74183   30 /dev         37 crw-rw-rw-  mixer0
> rw zbyszek     skype_bin  73910   30 /dev         37 crw-rw-rw- 
> mixer0 rw zbyszek     skype_bin  73909   30 /dev         37
> crw-rw-rw-  mixer0 rw zbyszek     skype_bin  73908   30 /dev        
> 37 crw-rw-rw-  mixer0 rw zbyszek     skype_bin  73093   30 /dev     
>    37 crw-rw-rw-  mixer0 rw
> zbyszek     skype_bin  72813   30 /dev         37 crw-rw-rw-  mixer0
> rw zbyszek     kdeinit    88649   10 /dev         37 crw-rw-rw- 
> mixer0 rw zbyszek     artsd      87899    9 /dev         38
> crw-rw-rw-  dsp0.0 rw
> 


--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced
    and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........
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