On 06/29/2012 04:46 PM, Mauro Santos wrote:
Most probably something else is grabbing either the playback or the capture device, at least I have only seen that error when that's the case. If you don't want pulse to "manage" your sound devices you should look into setting up an asound.conf with explicit entries for dmix and dsnoop to avoid one program hogging the sound device.
That said, the latest skype has been working just fine here with xfce+pulse.
I suspect there is a soundcard fight going on. Incoming calls work with: Speakers: Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 - IEC958 (hw:0,4) Ringing: Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 - IEC958 (hw:0,4) It's just the dialout that is messed up. I have also noticed that with pulse/Intel configs I get a delay when testing skype sound (push test button and 10 seconds later the audio file plays). To test, I fired up gnome (stuck in fallback with my Nvidia 8800 - sigh), but skype sound worked fine. I have no beef with pulse, alsa, whatever as long as it works. Since this is my first time messing with skype -- I'm just happy to identify the issue. Kudos to the folks who put the skype wiki together. Setting up a separate user to run skype with and preventing it from snooping is just plain smart. Simple solution, well written up. Thanks for your help and explanation! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.