On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:37 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Maxim Levitsky at 26/04/09 13:49 did gyre and gimble: > > 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? > > I've had reports that the the skype "support" was broken between test8 > and final of 0.9.15. > > As I have a 64 bit machine it's actually a bit of a pain to run a git > bisect, but you should try building test 8 and then test7 to see if it > starts working again with one of those and then run git bisect to find > the problem commit. It could be something simple that could be supported > without too much trouble, but skypes alsa implementation is apparently > pretty shocking, so supporting things like this, especially when the > Skype developers completely ignore the linux community's pleas for > support, is not exactly going to be easy. > I also have 64-bit system, how it worse? I will bisect, but for now I have some troubles, namely ubuntu patched the PA. They seem to install few alsa config files. I put them to /usr/share alsa manually, and also edited the ./.asoundrc, yet I can play sound with aplay -D pulse, but skype emits no sound at all, I feel that this is due to missing patches. I take a deeper look at this sightly later. (skype even refused to show pulse device it its settings till I added it to .asoundrc) As for skype attitude, I fully agree, but I have to use it due to other end. Best regards, Maxim Levitsky
