On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:26:17 +1100 James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Monday 20 March 2006 04:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 01:03:26PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I downloaded skype: <SNIP> > > > > My wife's twin is in the US, her father in the UK. Skype on SuSE32 > > is perfect. Sooo the bit that is hung out is the shiny new AMD64 :-( > I got stuck that way for a bit - getting all the family on Skype and then Skype seemed to get worse and worse. Anyway, gradually transferred everyone over to Gizmo - an easy change for Windows people and easy to connect to via Ekiga. Worth the effort to break away from closed source & Closed system. > I got the 32bit Skype running on my Kubuntu (breezy) box with a bit > of fiddling. I think the steps went like this: > 1. Install the STATIC-ly compiled Skype (big...but eliminates Qt > library errors from missing 32bit libs) > 2. Install the "linux32" package (hunt around - can't remember if > that's the correct package name). > 3. Run Skype prefixed with "linux32", ie: "linux32 /path/to/skype" > > It works but it's slow as a snail stuck in molasses to start! Once > running it does all manner of crap to my sound config - skype is an > OSS application and my system uses ALSA. Theoretically this > shouldn't pose major problems, but once Skype has been on a call, it > doesn't seem to release /dev/dsp which means no more music until I > restart Skype. :( > > YMMV. > > James > -- > Be different: conform. > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 428 148 071 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
