[ale] skype

drifter drifter at oppositelock.org
Thu Jul 22 18:45:09 EDT 2010


Yeah, R-I-G-H-T! For various values of "easy." :)
You forget I don't do this for a living. I last fought my way through the 
process more than 2 years ago.

Sean



On Thursday 22 July 2010 18:10:37 Jim Kinney wrote:
> Back off your /home data and anything "special" in /etc and do a fresh
> install. Tell it you want to do a "manual drive config" and see what it
> shows.  After that, it's actually pretty easy to delete all partitions
>  on all drives, select a drive, create a /boot then create a RAID
>  partition, repeat, select RAID and make a RAID device. Now select the
>  RAID device and create an LVM for /, /home, /var, etc
> 
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:50 PM, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> 
wrote:
> > Have the FC13 disc on hand.  Just not looking forward to forcing the
> > install onto a RAID 1.  Last time I did that it took hours for me to
> > figure out how to do it as the install routine didn't recognize the
> > existing RAID and I had to recreate it from scratch -- something I do
> > NOT do often enough to remember the precise order of the steps
> > involved. :)
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > On Thursday 22 July 2010 16:51:00 Jim Kinney wrote:
> > > bump distro to F13 and reinstall skype. F11 is dead.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:09 PM, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > Skype was working well on a FC11 box.
> > > > Ran it with the following command: artsdsp -m ./skype
> > > >
> > > > No longer sure what-all that command does or where I found
> > > > it, but it worked.
> > > >
> > > > Upgraded to a beta 2.1.0.81 (with no choice on the download for
> > > > the earlier, non-beta version) and now the sound doesn't work.
> > > > Skype's options page only lists pulse-audio as a sound driver and
> > > > I no longer have pulse audio on this box.  If it is hiding
> > > > somewhere, yum - list can't find it.  Audio out no longer works
> > > > through my Logitech camera/microphone. For that matter the video
> > > > doesn't work any more either, but at least Skype seems to know the
> > > > camera is there. Tried running Skype with and without the extra
> > > > command -- no difference: still no audio-out and no video.
> > > >
> > > > Skype's own web page has offered no help.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any idea where the log file for this app might be
> > > > hiding?
> > > >
> > > > Sean
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