Did you chown /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp to your own user name?
Or chmod them to a+rw ?
Gilles.
Doug Scott wrote:
> Yesterday I played around with getting the latest version of Skype for Linux
> (1.4beta) working on a Centos 3.8 lx zone. It all works at the moment except
> for sound :( A slight show stopper for Skype....
>
> doug at lnx2> skype
> ALSA lib ctl_oss.c:390:(_snd_ctl_oss_open) Cannot get mixer info for device
>
> Hopefully I will be able to reply in a few days with a fix. If I remember the
> steps to get it working are -
>
> 1) Build and install
> gcc 4.2.1
> alsa-lib-1.0.14a
> alsa-plugins-1.0.14
> libxml2-sources-2.6.29
> libsigc++-2.0.17
> dbus-1.0.2 (needs some configuring)
> qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.0
> Edit qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.0/mkspecs/common/g++.conf - make
> QMAKE_CFLAGS_USE_PRECOMPILE +=
> The pre-compiled headers seems to break a build with gcc 4.2.1
>
> 2) Download skype-1.4.0.94.tar.bz2
> copy skype to /usr/bin
> mkdir /usr/share/skype
> copy sounds to /usr/share/skype
> copy skype.desktop to /usr/share/applications
> copy icons to /usr/share/skype
> copy skype.conf to /etc/dbus-1/system.d
>
> 3) Reboot the lx zone
>
> 4) as you - ssh -X <lx zonename> and run skype
>
> Doug
>
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