On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 11:30:02 AM UTC+5:30, Hans wrote: > ! > > Works like a charm! How in the world did you figure that out? > > Hugo > Hi Hugo,
> to figure this out was by chance and a littlen bit thinking. > Someone in the skype forum told, he installed skype 4.2 and it connected. So > I > downgraded skypeo from 4.3 to 4.2 and at the first start it connected, too. > Then I disconnected from the skype-servers and tried to reconnect. There was > no way to reconnect. However, now I knew, connecting is possible, but the > server inhibits. > Now I looked into the package, the only main difference I saw in the linux > package, that the skype binary was different. The skype.conf and other files > were the same. > As I am no coder, my idea was, that the skype server just check the version > of > the binary. the command skype --version told me the version, and I thought, > this version must be named somewhere in the binary. > The rest was simple: I opened the binary with a hexeditor and searched for > the > version: 4.2.0.11 and then changed this to the actual version. Doing so, the > old binary behaves as the 4.2 version, but tells the skype-server, hey, I am > 4.3.0.37. That way the skype server allows connecting again. > I am no coder, a real coder would have disassembled the 4.3 skype binary and > put alsa support back. My way was much more simple and more a "hack". :) He would?!?! I'll need to contact my univ, return my degree and ask a money-back then :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e5e389f1-4b0e-4303-9580-5e28f3923...@googlegroups.com