Skype 2.1 Beta Brings New Features To Linux

[curaga]

Guys, just point libasound to use OSS. It works a lot better than either systems' emulation.

http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/05/perfect-sound-with-oss-version-4.html

[R00KIE]

There is and it's exactly that, the files are all there it's just that configure accepts --enable-libsalsa=NO just fine but not --enable-libsalsa=YES.

Later I'll try to manually compile it instead of using a modified pkgbuild. But even if I can compile it, it doesn't mean it will work. It was not made to be a perfect alsa emulation/translation layer after all.

[nanonyme]

I'd check ./configure --help|less and try to find if there's anything related to ALSA.

[R00KIE]

OSSv4 comes with an ALSA compatiblity layer. Use that.

The distro I use (Arch Linux) has libsalsa disabled in the package and if I try to compile OSSv4 with --enable-libsalsa=YES it aborts with "unknown option --enable-libsalsa=YES".

I guess I'll have to look into it better, but anyway, there is no good reason not to support ossv4 directly, the 2.0 version of skype did have direct support for oss and that works perfectly here.

[Apopas]

I paid for Nero Linux 3 few years ago, and it's the only burning software I can trust to do the work.
Brasero is joke that not working, K3B is not always working.

Yeah I see you're giving real facts here.

It is not a shame to pay for something that does the work. I had a choice and i used it. No regrets.

It's idiot to pay for something you can have for free.

You'll probably waste more money on f...d blank CD/DVD if you don't use Nero.

Not a single blank disk as long as I remember. And this is a fact not a personal opinion. So the bucks I would have given for Nero would be practically a waste.

But anyway, you have the right to use whatever you choose and as long as you don't bash other people choices no one really cares about your choice.

As I have the right to use whatever I want, is my right as well to judge if someone else should do this as long as I don't forbid him to choose whatever he wants as well.

[nanonyme]

Too bad they dropped support for OSSv4, for now at least. Appart from that this new version seem to work well (at least for the short time I have used it). Alsa doesn't play well with my notebook so I'm compelled to use OSSv4c and I will only poke pulse with a long stick.

OSSv4 comes with an ALSA compatiblity layer. Use that.

[n0nsense]

Waste of money ?

Yup Nero Linux... the best way to waste your money under Linux...

I paid for Nero Linux 3 few years ago, and it's the only burning software I can trust to do the work.
Brasero is joke that not working, K3B is not always working.
It is not a shame to pay for something that does the work. I had a choice and i used it. No regrets.
You'll probably waste more money on f...d blank CD/DVD if you don't use Nero.
But anyway, you have the right to use whatever you choose and as long as you don't bash other people choices no one really cares about your choice.

[myxal]

Yup, same here. Interestingly though, the package no longer depends on lib32v4l like the version from medibuntu did.

[panda84]

It was reported on another forum that it's still a 32-bit build using 64-bit compatibility libraries. I haven't bothered to check yet to be honest, but it's not hard to believe.

In the comments of the news:

http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2009/08/skype_for_linux_21_beta.html

The 64-bit installer contains a 32-bit executable:
# file skype
skype: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped

So, it's still only 32-bit.

[benmoran]

It was reported on another forum that it's still a 32-bit build using 64-bit compatibility libraries. I haven't bothered to check yet to be honest, but it's not hard to believe.