vatbier wrote: > I'm not sure to what or who I should ask this question: > http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#Skype : > Now launch skype whether from the run dialog or from a shell using the > command "pasuspender skype". This momentarily suspends pulseaudio, and > starts skype. Indeed. pasuspender isn't really sensible with skype. Better to tell skype to use the hardware devices and just "hope" that nothing is playing sound when a call comes in :) > If you're running skype all the time (like me, from login to logout, if > you want to be able to receive skype calls), the momentarily suspension > of pulseaudio becomes indefinitely. So pulseaudio becomes useless. > If I'm correct about this, can someone put this info on the > perfectsetup wiki page? You are correct. Feel free to change it. It's a wiki :) > When Mandriva 2008.1 comes out I'm afraid I'll have to disable > pulseaudio just because of skype. Yeah it's a shame, but please remember that this is not the fault of Mandriva or any other distro adopting pulseaudio by default. It's the fault of Skype for not supporting Alsa properly (or so it seems at the moment). > Pulseaudio people should pressure the skype developers to work with > pulseaudio. We're the open community, not them. There has been plenty of attempts and pressure from users. It's up to them. > Skype is for me (and a lot of other linux users) a must > have application (Ekiga is not a viable alternative: last I used it, it > crashed everytime with connection to Ekiga_win32). Ekiga works for me, but that's another story. The fact is you are complaining to the pulseaudio list (and opensource product) that skype (a closed source product) does not work properly. We cannot fix skype, it's up to their devs to do it. It will happen eventually once more pressure is applied to them but that wont happen until more distros ship this option by default. It's catch 22. They don't really care about the linux users. The skype software is not super complex... if they had more than one linux developer it would have been miles further ahead by now. If they actually do have more than one dev then is pretty embarrassing how little progress on the important parts of skype has occurred. </end rant on closed source, close protocol crap> Col
