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I had almost similar problem on Intrpid Ibex, and now faced it on Jaunty to setup sound properly for Skype 2.1. What was the problem? I wasn’t able to hear though receiver was able to hear me clearly. New Skype for Linux 2.1 supports PulseAudio. This is certainly a blessings as PulseAudio is known as a standard sound server. But that was my main problem! In skype sound device option, i had only one option for sound In/Out and that was “PulseAudio server (Local)”. I wanted to get rid of that (PulseAudio) so that i could use ALSA alternatively. Thought that would fix the problem and it did!
So i had 2 options to get rid of PulseAudio, i have to uninstall or stop it to get automatically selected on Skype. Instead of uninstalling i did stop the auto selection…
gedit ~/.pulse/client.conf
#and then set
autospawn = no
save and exit. We are safe from pulseaudio now. And new Skype when it doesn’t get the pulseaudio it uses alsa. Are we done here to get rid of this problem? Not really, if you are using a fresh copy of Jaunty then have a look here and do some important updates/install. Then we are fine .. (well, at least for me it worked)
Let’s have a look at my sound settings from the screenshots. Hope it helps if you are facing same problem like me…..
Some helpful links:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578
http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/ubuntu-904-jaunty-keeping-the-beast-pulseaudio-at-bay/
Some helpful links:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578
http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/ubuntu-904-jaunty-keeping-the-beast-pulseaudio-at-bay/