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Skype 2.1 Sound Setup for Ubuntu:Jaunty

October 11th, 2009

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/

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Skype – “Problem with Audio Playback” Solved for Intrepid Ibex!

November 22nd, 2008

My Acer laptop model is 5573. and i got Realtek ALC 883 sound card. All other sound device and stuff worked fine for me on new Linux Distro called the “Intrepid Ibex”. Just skype didn’t behave that well till now
Every time I called someone it showed a wrong message “Problem with Audio Playback”. After left/right movement on sound devices I was able to hear from other end but the receiver didnt hear me at all. And finally after digging it I have sloved the problem
here is the solution how I solved it…
first of all double click on the volume control and it will open the volume manager…
default is HDA Intel (alsa mixer) change it to your sound card (in my case it is “Realtek ALC883”). Close the window now go to the option of skype.
Select sound device from left navigation and follow the screen shot I have attached here.

Setup your sound devices for audio playback problem