2009/5/12 Wendell Nichols <wcn00@xxxxxxx>: > This is a short howto for skype on recent fedora distributions which use the > pulseaudio system. I had no sound in skype and am going on a trip so I > needed to resolve that problem. I saw lots of others with the problem on > the web with mixed results so I'll post the resolution to my problem here > where its searchable :) > > problem: no sound in skype. Pressing the test sound button produced no > output. sound on the box is working perfectly. > > I connected strace to it (strace -f -e trace-open -p 1234) and pressed the > test sound button. It failed to open some pulseaudio libs in > /usr/lib/pulse... (I forget exactly which ones... sorry). The problem is > that while I have a working sound system for most apps Skype is a 32 bit app > and needs 32 bit pulse support. So I installed: > yum install pulseaudio.i386 pulseaudio-core-libs.i386 > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386 > > Then I set the sound device to "pulse" in skype, pressed the test button and > it made noise! > > Hopefully this will help others... > wcn > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup hope it can help.... -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag SIP: antoniomontag@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
