'Twas brillig, and Marko Doda at 03/03/11 07:20 did gyre and gimble: > Skype supports pulseaudio, but its kinda buggy, notification sounds get > published to pulseaudio as phone streams and the default pulseaudio > responds by muting everything else. I solved it by commenting > load-module module-cork-music-on-phone Hmm, the notification sounds should be marked as "event" sounds. I'm pretty sure the Skype folks fixed this a long time ago - are you using an early beta? e.g. here: index: 440 driver: <protocol-native.c> flags: START_CORKED state: RUNNING sink: 0 <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo> volume: 0: 76% 0: -7.15 dB balance 0.00 muted: no current latency: 57.46 ms requested latency: 66.00 ms sample spec: s16le 1ch 48000Hz channel map: mono Mono resample method: trivial module: 10 client: 11 <Skype> properties: window.icon_name = "skype" application.icon_name = "skype" media.role = "event" media.name = "Event Sound" application.name = "Skype" native-protocol.peer = "UNIX socket client" native-protocol.version = "16" application.process.id = "5668" application.process.user = "colin" application.process.host = "jimmy" application.process.binary = "skype" application.language = "en_GB.utf8" window.x11.display = ":0.0" module-stream-restore.id = "sink-input-by-media-role:event" Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]