0.9.14 seems finally to work fine with skype for both recording and playback. I installed alsa-lib 1.0.19, and still skype works fine. (I had very starange issue with skype crashing when it uses some very old api, and it seems that if I take 1.0.19 lib32 package, and manually copy libasound.so from it, then it works, otherwise something in dpkg strips out these symbols - very strange) Still, works fine, but now with PA 0.9.15, it often hangs, and also I noticed very hight > 100% volumes in pavucontrol, also if I remove ./.pulse this helps temporary, (eg, next time skype starts normally and appears to work, but it works for maybe few minutes, then same happens) Is this known? Best regards, Maxim Levitsky