Skype problem with audio playback 8.10

[wildrabbit]

None of the above did work for me but reinstalling pulseaudio worked.

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

All settings in skype are set to pulse (in audio tab)

[krazykookmany]

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[Bott]

I removed pulseaudio successfully, but then ubuntu (8.10) would not load, saying it couldn't find the pulse audio file (duh). I tried to reinstall it, and did the skype settings above, but that did not work...

Any ideas?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ove+Pulseaudio is a thread that gives a fix for that. To summarize:

killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install esound
sudo Nautilus

and then browse and remove "/etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio"

[pepik]

I'm having this issue too, on a Sony Vaio laptop. Removing and then reinstalling pulseaudio did nothing, changing all these various settings seemed to allow me to make calls but the mic didn't work.

Seems like there is a real issue here with Skype and Ubuntu 8.10.

[rhenium3]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ove+Pulseaudio is a thread that gives a fix for that. To summarize:



and then browse and remove "/etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio"

Great, did this, set up skype settings to HDA Intel 0 and it works and is not so choppy. No problems restarting either, thanks!

[asdir]

I had the same problem as the others and for sounds and output setting the config to "pulse" worked.

As for the input I had to sound settings and under "options" had to set one of the input sources to "front mic" which is the only mic working on my computer. It seems that after an update Ubuntu did not recognize my front mic. This might be because it was not plugged in at that time and my mic-port can also be used as an out-port.

Hope that helped someone.

[Uncle Che]

I tried anything and everything and the only thing that worked was removing pulseaudio and installing esound. I am looking for another fix, but this is at least letting my Skype work.

[oonska]

http://mattions.wordpress.com/2008/1...nd-ubuntu-810/

This post here solved my audio out problem, and I hope it'll help others too.

[frigaut]

Indeed using apt-get remove pulseaudio will mess up your X session and you will not be able to log in. This is because -and that's a bug- /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio is left after the remove, being somehow considered as a config file. It is not.

However, doing a

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio

which means remove, including all config files, works well and remove 70pulseaudio too (and a bunch of other pulseaudio config files).
In general, it is not a good idea to remove files from underneath the package manager. Although in that case, I could be safe to do what you advertise.

Everything works well without pulseaudio. What I wonder is: pulseaudio being in the regular 8.10 release, is that needed for some other functionalities? aren't we shooting ourselves in the foot by removing this package?