I use skype and pulseaudio in Debian Wheezy. I just recently started using pulseaudio and I like it, especially since I have 2 sound cards and I like to have System and Skype sounds go through my analog output while my music going through a digital output.
What I have observed, however, is that sometimes pulseaudio just stops working, and when that happens any other program that needs sound just freezes instead of making sounds. It becomes a "cascading" effect of frozen apps that won't work even after restarting them. It happens often when I receive an IM (which results in a system sound) while I am talking on Skype. I believe this is a bug in how Skype uses Pulse, or a bug in Pulse, but in either case, there is an instability in this particular combination of software that forces me to either logout/login again to KDE, or to reboot. Restarting pulse doesn't do it for me. I did not observe this instability until I started using pulseaudio. If Skype uses Alsa directly, it seems to be more stable. On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Shervin Emami <shervin.em...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm using the NVIDIA driver from Debian Stable, but since I have Optimus > (both an Intel & NVIDIA GPU), it would be using the Intel driver for normal > display, and I made it use Mesa as the default GL library for this reason. > So maybe my problems are related to Optimus, I wouldn't be surprised :-( I > work for NVIDIA and yet even I have numerous software & hardware troubles > due to Optimus! I'll try using the latest NVIDIA driver, supposedly it has > some Optimus support now so it doesn't need Bumblebee anymore. > > > Cheers, > Shervin Emami. > http://www.shervinemami.info/openCV.html > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Facundo Aguilera <budin...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Shervin Emami <shervin.em...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I'm even using the Debian Stable packages for >> > NVIDIA GPU and CUDA toolkit and OpenGL. >> > >> > ... >> >> Are you using the nvidia driver or nouveau? I had similar problems >> with nouveau and desktop effects enabled. >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: >> http://lists.debian.org/CAPYB0ABaVE=yg5jjy6ruhbfuksg_794oc6psznku0va+da_...@mail.gmail.com >> >> >
