On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 13:29 -0300, Gustavo Duarte wrote: > Tanu, you have just hit the nail on the head. > > Awesome !!! > > After sound mic is broken, running "paplay > /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga" fix it. > > As you told, skype changes the sample rate. > > On other hand, if I running "paplay > /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga" before skype, it avoid > the input sound break. > > > To be more clear I did following two tests. > > A) To check your guest. > > 1) boot > > 2) open Skype, and clall "Echo sound / service", NO msg was recorder. > > 3) run "paplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga" > > 4) open Skype, and clall "Echo sound / service", msg was recorder, mic > start to WORKING. > > > B) In order to find a workaround to fix it. > > 1) boot > > 2) run "paplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga" > > 3) open Skype, and clall "Echo sound / service", msg was recorder, mic > WORKS. > > > I wonder if there is another way more elegant, to fix it ? > > (Avoid Skype or other apps change the sample rate and break the sound). You can set default-sample-rate and alternate-sample-rate both to 44100 in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. Then pulseaudio won't ever switch to 48000 Hz. It would be good to also report this to the alsa developers. http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Bug_Tracking -- Tanu