[SOLVED] With Pulseaudio Installed Sound Only as Root

[larophel]

A while ago, I installed pulseaudio, since it is needed for the new Skype version.
Up to today, everything worked fine, I could make Skype audio calls and play audio using mplayer etc. via ALSA.
Today, audio playback suddenly stopped working, if I am not root.
My user is still in the "audio" group and I did not perform any upgrade of pulseaudio or kernel since yesterday.
The only solution I have found so far is to uninstall pulseaudio. Then, the audio playback starts working again.
However, that prevents me from using Skype. Does anybody know what I could do to get both pulseaudio and ALSA working at the same time?

[fernan82]

Remove yourself and any users from the audio group, make sure consolekit service is started, then logoff and log back in.

[depontius]

There is a HowTo here on the forums about using pulseaudio for skype only, leaving the rest of the system basic alsa. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-997424-highlight-skype.html
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[larophel]

Thanks, removing /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/51-pulseaudio-probe.conf as detailed in the guide did the trick!