The following reply was made to PR misc/30044; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: misc-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/30044: Problem using skype in netbsd with default
	settings.
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:04:00 -0300

 On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 03:30 +0000, viktor@netbsd.se wrote:
 > >Synopsis:       Soundcard is not by default in full-duplex mode, and
 >  causing trouble with skype and possible other applications using full
 >  duplex feature.
 
 I'm able to reproduce this issue on my test system. Looks like the bug
 has existed for over 7 years.
 
 Looking at some of the Linux OSS code, it seems that they default the
 audio device to full-duplex mode if the device was opened read/write. We
 currently don't do this (it's commented out in sys/dev/audio.c):
 
         sc->sc_full_duplex = 0;
 /* doesn't always work right on SB.
                 (flags & (FWRITE|FREAD)) == (FWRITE|FREAD) &&
                 (hw->get_props(sc->hw_hdl) & AUDIO_PROP_FULLDUPLEX);
 */
 
 Proposal to change this odd behaviour was sent to tech-kern; waiting for
 feedback.
 
 Cheers,
 Jared