[wellylug] pulseaudio & skype

[Kingsley G. Morse Jr.]

Hi Rob,

I had a similar experience with pulseaudio a few
years ago, and I happen to agree with your
parenthetical summary of it.

I wish I didn't feel the need to mention this, but
I invested quite a few hours into trying to make
it work, and as I learned more, it became apparent
that, at least at that time, pulse audio worked OK
for some simple applications, but opened a big
ugly can of worms for others.

It just wasn't robust enough to be ready for
prime-time.

In retrospect, I probably could have saved time by
abandoning pulseaudio sooner, even if it meant
switching to a different distribution of Linux.

I hope it has improved.

All the best,
~K

On 03/15/11 09:20, Rob Collins wrote:
> Well I successfully got Opensuse 11.4 up and running on my acer intel 
> laptop with ATI sound.  Everything works really well with many speed 
> improvements especially noticeable now kde4.6 is the desktop.  Well that 
> is except for skype 2.1b2 because Opensuse have now swapped to 
> pulseaudio (dammit).  Can anybody tell me what I should be doing to 
> assess what is going wrong that my pulseaudio skpe cannot use the 
> internal mic (the one just above the laptop display)?  btw, all other 
> sound recording apps seem to be working fine, it appears to be just 
> skype with the problem.
> 
> pavucontrol:
> I have tried having pavucontrol open to check for mic usage with its 
> usage meter but it seems they have set opensuse's sound system up so 
> that pavucontrol takes TOTAL control of the sound system while running 
> so no other application can access the sound!  All I get with sound 
> recording apps when I try to run while pavucontrol is up are "cannot 
> access sound device..." type messages.
> 
> Rob Collins

> 
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