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Manolo Martínez

23 Jun 2014 23 Jun '14

2:42 p.m.

Hello, Pacman warns that Skype 4.3 only works with Pulseaudio. As far as I can tell, that is not true. I don't use PA, and Skype works. Manolo --

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Sebastiaan Lokhorst

23 Jun 23 Jun

2:57 p.m.

It works (the application starts and you can chat), but anything related to audio does not work. So when you are calling someone you can't hear them and they can't hear you. 2014-06-23 16:42 GMT+02:00 Manolo Martínez :

Hello,

Pacman warns that Skype 4.3 only works with Pulseaudio. As far as I can tell, that is not true. I don't use PA, and Skype works.

Manolo

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Manolo Martínez

3:17 p.m.

On 06/23/14 at 04:57pm, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:

It works (the application starts and you can chat), but anything related to audio does not work. So when you are calling someone you can't hear them and they can't hear you.

That makes sense :) What a drag... Thanks, Manolo

Nathan R. DeGruchy

3:23 p.m.

Part of their announcement was that they now rely directly on PA, dropping ALSA: http://blogs.skype.com/2014/06/18/skype-4-3-for-linux/ -----Original Message----- From: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-bounces@archlinux.org] On Behalf Of Manolo Martínez Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 11:18 AM To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] Skype and PA On 06/23/14 at 04:57pm, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:

It works (the application starts and you can chat), but anything related to audio does not work. So when you are calling someone you can't hear them and they can't hear you.

That makes sense :) What a drag... Thanks, Manolo

Kevin Ott

3:30 p.m.

On Monday, June 23, 2014 05:17:48 PM Manolo Martínez wrote:

On 06/23/14 at 04:57pm, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:

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It works (the application starts and you can chat), but anything related to audio does not work. So when you are calling someone you can't hear them and they can't hear you.

That makes sense :) What a drag...

Thanks, Manolo

If you would still like to use Skype it is possible to set PulseAudio up as a temporary pipe to ALSA [1]. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#PulseAudio_as_a_min...

Manolo Martínez

3:37 p.m.

If you would still like to use Skype it is possible to set PulseAudio up as a temporary pipe to ALSA [1].

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#PulseAudio_as_a_min...

That's very useful. I wish I could convince my dad to switch to some other, less obnoxious piece of software, but that would take more time, I think. Thanks. M

Hugo Osvaldo Barrera

11:12 p.m.

On 2014-06-23 16:57, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:

It works (the application starts and you can chat), but anything related to audio does not work. So when you are calling someone you can't hear them and they can't hear you.

I also noticed this message when UNINSTALLING skype, which I found a bit confusing/odd. The above should also be clarified a bit more.

2014-06-23 16:42 GMT+02:00 Manolo Martínez :

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Hello,

Pacman warns that Skype 4.3 only works with Pulseaudio. As far as I can tell, that is not true. I don't use PA, and Skype works.

Manolo

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