On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Arthur Pemberton at 18/01/10 09:03 did gyre and gimble: >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Between the PulseAudio Volume Control and Skype, I am not sure how to >>> use my bluetooth headset. >> >> I've since been able to figure out the problem with help from #pulseaudio. >> >> The main "fix" was switching the streams. >> >> Also, it may or may not have been necessary to uncheck "allow skype to >> automatically adjust my mixer levels" in Skype. My attempts pre >> #pulseaudio had this box checked. > > In the current beta you definitely need this box unticked. > > I blogged about this a while back and have been trying to help the Skype > devs get their PA support working nicely. Sadly due to a deadline we > couldn't fix the problem with AGC for their final release so it will not > work with PA for this release but I believe the box will be disabled for > the PA backend, so you wont have to do anything manually come final release. > > Also, as Skype calls are (or will be) tagged as "phone", when you turn > on your Bluetooth headset mid call, it will automcatially switch the > Skype streams to your headset for you via the module-intended-roles > module that is loaded by default. > > http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/skype-pulse-goodness/ > Ah, you're that Colin. Thanks for the confirmation that the uncheck was necessary. Also, I look forward to the KMix integration, I was able to use pavucontrol to switch streams. It's nice that the stream assignments are remembered. -- Fedora 11 (www.pembo13.com)
