On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:04:36 -0700
David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm trying to run Skype on my FreeBSD 6.1 system, and I am having 
> conflicts with KDE and the arts sound system. It works fine after I 
> kill artsd, but that's not a good solution. I have hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 
> in my /etc/sysctl.conf file, but I still can't get Skype to play nice 
> with artsd. It doesn't matter if I set KDE/artsd to use /dev/dsp0.0 
> or /dev/dsp0.1, Skype still complains that there's a problem with the 
> sound device. There is no way in Skype configuration to get it to use 
> another device besides /dev/dsp. I tried to use artsdsp, but it spits 
> out a lot of errors.
> 
> I can install a second sound card, but why should I? Has anyone figured 
> out the magic words to get Skype to behave?

Are you sure this is what happens ? With artsd using something else
that /dev/dsp I have no problems running skype. What soundcard do you
have ?

 > sysctl hw.snd
hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1
hw.snd.targetirqrate: 32
hw.snd.verbose: 1
hw.snd.maxautovchans: 4
hw.snd.unit: 0
hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize: 16384
hw.snd.pcm0.vchans: 2
hw.snd.pcm0.ac97rate: 48000
 > ps axwww | grep arts
 1106  ??  S      2:13.92 /usr/local/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -d -D /dev/dsp0.4 
-s 60 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f


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