[ale] skype

[Jim Kinney]

It's even easier! It's only take an hour this time :-)

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:45 PM, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

> 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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James P. Kinney III
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