On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:26 -0700, David L wrote: > Every once in a while I try to place a call in skype in f8t3 and I get > this error: > > Call Failed: Problem with Audio Playback > > lsof tells me this: > > /usr/sbin/lsof /dev/snd/* > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME > exe 2643 dl mem CHR 116,4 2764 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > exe 2643 dl 15u CHR 116,9 2732 /dev/snd/controlC1 > exe 2643 dl 21u CHR 116,6 2755 /dev/snd/controlC0 > exe 2643 dl 27u CHR 116,6 2755 /dev/snd/controlC0 > exe 2643 dl 34u CHR 116,4 2764 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > > cat /proc/2643/cmdline > /usr/bin/pulseaudio--log-target=syslog > > killing the pulseaudio app fixes the problem. I don't remember this > in f7 and I don't know what I'm doing to cause it to start. PulseAudio is the new sound server that's installed and enabled by default for Fedora 8. It handles sound input from esound/arts/ALSA/etc and does fancy mixing and transporting and generally makes sound support totally awesome. You can get more info about it here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePulseaudio Since it's a replacement for esound/arts, it's started when you log in to GNOME/KDE, just like those programs were. Here's the problem: Skype apparently still doesn't know how to use ALSA properly. Since it's a closed-source app there's not a lot we can do about that. There appears to be a workaround mentioned here: http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Feisty/HOWTO:_PulseAudio#Running_Skype Basically, try running: "padsp skype" and PulseAudio will emulate the OSS interface to make skype happy. Hope that helps. -w
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