Skype problem with audio playback 8.10

[wakaru]

Here's what I did:

Sound In: Intel ICH6 (hw:ICH6,0) (it's under pulse)
Sound Out: Pulse
Ringer: Pulse

it all works fine for me without getting rid of Pulseaudio

perfect solution!!!

thank you

[frigaut]

yes, it did too for me until I got problems with:
1) other applications interfering (banshee, vlc)
2) no sound after suspend/hibernate

but there seems to be alternative solutions around, like installing skype static. For me, removing pulseaudio altogether seem to have done the trick (with apt-get purge). But as I said earlier, I'm not sure what consequences I might have overlooked.

[Tmi]

I can also confirm that purging pulseaudio and installing esound worked for me. Now I can finally use skype again.

[dj620129]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ove+Pulseaudio is a thread that gives a fix for that. To summarize:

and then browse and remove "/etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio"

I am using Ubuntu 8.10 on Thinkpad X60.

I did the above and then in Multimedia System Configuration, I selected ALSA for output and input, and in Skype I selected default for in, out, and call.

It works fine.
I restart Skype, it works
I reboot, it works fine.

But, I wonder what pulseaudio is for?

Anyway, I hope you all can fix the Skype problems following what I did.

[nwstephens]

Here's what I did:

Sound In: Intel ICH6 (hw:ICH6,0) (it's under pulse)
Sound Out: Pulse
Ringer: Pulse

it all works fine for me without getting rid of Pulseaudio

The following configuration worked for my Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 on my old Dell Dimension 3000. The audio and video both work great.

Sound In: USB Device 0x46d:0x900 (hw:U0x46d0x990,0)
Sound Out: Pulse
Ringer: Pulse

After setting both "sound out" and "ringer" to pulse, I played around with the "sound in" until it worked.

[JustBCoz]

* Sound In: HDA Intel (hw:Nvidia, 0)
* Sound Out: HDA Intel (plughw:Nvidia, 0)
* Ringing: HDA Intel (plughw, Nvidia, 0)

THIS WORKED FOR ME

Removing Pulseaudio was a bad idea, It crashed X.

[raulricardo21]

perfect solution!!!

thank you

Same for me...

Esta solución si me gustó, aunque previamente me todo

sudo aptitude remove pulseaudio
sudo aptitude install pulseaudio ubuntu-desktop

I like this solution because keep the structure of my system

[lordnino]

in ubuntu 8.10, System - Preferences - Sound - Devices - Audo Conferencing: Test your sound playback & Sound capture(Mic). Use Other if ever test failed. If everything works fine, Go to Skype - Options - Sound Devices: try to set Sound in,Sound Out,Ringing to "pulse" setup. Try "Make a test sound" . If heared sound then try "Make a test call". if ok. apply the exit!!

[ComputekPR]

Here's what I did:

Sound In: Intel ICH6 (hw:ICH6,0) (it's under pulse)
Sound Out: Pulse
Ringer: Pulse

it all works fine for me without getting rid of Pulseaudio

This work for me Thanks......

[patond]

Hi. I solved this by going to Options within Skype (or CTRL O) and selecting Sound Devices. Sound In, Sound Out and Ringing are all set to pulse by default - or it was for me. You need to know what your sound card is. Mine is Intel IHCH5 - I set them all to Intel ICH5 and this made Skype Test Call work properly. In ALSA Mixer it may also help to set MIC Boost.