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valentas
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 Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:42 am Post subject: Audio focuses with skype |
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I've upgraded to version 1.3 of Skype from portage. Version 1.2 worked fine with aoss. The new version connects, displays online contacts and receives messages. However, unless I run kdesu skype, I cannot write anyone a message or make a call. From root I am able to send messages, but both in user and root mode there is no sound.
My sound card is intel ich6 (Skype detects it), kernel version 2.6.17-gentoo-r8. Should I try to cure that or better revert to the old version?
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sternklang
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:23 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
What are the ownership and permissions on your ~/.Skype directory? Perhaps you ran Skype su'd to root from within your user account in the past? Try: | Code: | | chown -R <yourusername>:users ~/.Skype |
Then try running Skype. |
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valentas
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| No help. The whole directory was owned by me before. And I used my normal user to run skype 1.2. |
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valentas
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| sorry that I ask this really n00b question: which is a correct way to revert to an older version? |
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valentas
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| surprise surprise! just without no reason the sound sometimes appears in kdesu mode and I can even make a call! but also suddenly it disappears again or microphone stops working unpredictably. |
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irondog
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 5:05 am Post subject: |
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These are two very old posts by me:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3844746-highlight-.html#3844746
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3700003-highlight-.html#3700003
This is what I've been saying for months now:
| irondog wrote: | The latest Skype has some serious problems on my computer as well (HDA Intel / ALSA). I'm using an older, ALSA enabled beta (1.3.0.50) at the moment without any problems.
You can get the older beta version 1.3.0.50 here:
http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-dynamic
And here:
http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-static
The Gentoo version net-im/skype-1.3.0.53-r1 in portage is crappy for me also. However, I have recording issues instead of crappy playback, so I don't know if this will be your fix  |
The Skype version in portage is a piece of junk. It's buggy. I don't know why it's marked stable in portage and why Skype doesn't release new versions. Maybe there are too few people willing to make bugreports or the Linux people never use Skype's phonecall features 
Use version 1.3.0.50 instead. This beta version works way better and supports ALSA!
Sidenote:
P5B users should use kernel >= 2.6.21-rc5. This kernel version adds proper support for the onboard HDA soundcard.
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valentas
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| Dank u wel. I'll try. |
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valentas
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| Unfortunately, 1.3.0.50 works exactly the same way. I suppose something is wrong with permissions. I can play and record sounds with my alsa driver using other programs fine. I tried the old (1.2) version again, and there are no problems. If I start skype 1.3 using aoss, the sound system list is empty, if I start it using artsdp, it allows to select from ALSA and OSS. In both ways there the test sounds do not work, the call is "Connecting" forever and the messages are not sent. And kdesu mode chatting and even audio works, though only the first call or so. |
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sternklang
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:24 am Post subject: |
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| valentas wrote: | | If I start skype 1.3 using aoss, the sound system list is empty, if I start it using artsdp, it allows to select from ALSA and OSS. In both ways there the test sounds do not work, the call is "Connecting" forever and the messages are not sent. And kdesu mode chatting and even audio works, though only the first call or so. |
I start skype without invoking it via aoss -- perhaps that's your problem? Skype is fully Alsa-enabled now. However, I use Gnome rather than KDE so YMMV.
Another possibility is the permissions issue is related to dbus rather than permissions on specific files. What groups is your user account in? I assume you are in the audio group. Do you have a dbus config file for Skype, /etc/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf?
Also, although you say "The whole directory was owned by me before." have you checked permissions/ownership on individual files within your ~/.Skype/<profile>/ directory?
@irondog, you may well be running into problems with 1.3.0.53-r1 but that version works well for me, and I do use several different Skype services (SkypeOut, SkypeIn, Voicemail) regularly. I don't doubt your problems, but it's possible the reason there haven't been bugreports is that your experience may be atypical. I notice both forum threads you linked to have to do with problems with the intel_hda alsa driver rather than Skype, so maybe I don't see these problems because I'm using older, better supported sound hardware (intel_8x0 driver, nvidia nforce3 audio controller). |
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valentas
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| sternklang wrote: |
I start skype without invoking it via aoss -- perhaps that's your problem? Skype is fully Alsa-enabled now. However, I use Gnome rather than KDE so YMMV.
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Without aoss it doesn't work also.
| sternklang wrote: |
Another possibility is the permissions issue is related to dbus rather than permissions on specific files. What groups is your user account in? I assume you are in the audio group. Do you have a dbus config file for Skype, /etc/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf?
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Groups: wheel, audio, portage. Yes, I do have that config file.
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Also, although you say "The whole directory was owned by me before." have you checked permissions/ownership on individual files within your ~/.Skype/<profile>/ directory?
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Yes, i'd checked that. |
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