On Mon, 16.07.07 16:20, frank at sudo.hu (frank at sudo.hu) wrote: > Question: Why does Skype try to access these devices directly, when it's > supposed to use an audio server? I can even see it registered with > PulseAudio in the manager app. I don't use this closed source software, but I would guess that this is most likely because Skype sucks and always uses "hw:0" to access the audio device, instead of "default". Please complain to the Skype people about that. Since Skype is closed source crap I cannot send them a patch, although I'd like to. Sorry, Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4