When I upgraded my hardy laptop to intrepid I lost audio/mic in Skype: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/288269/comments/10
Recently someone posted a comment with some steps that fixed the issue for me: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/288269/comments/10 ...for _5 months_ I've had people call me on Skype without being able to answer the call. Instead I had to press the HANG UP button and then send a text based chat message explaining that my microphone didn't work because I "upgraded" by Ubuntu. Due to all this bad publicity for Ubuntu, the people I usually talk to on Skype won't convert their Windows installs to Ubuntu any time soon, that's for sure :-( PS. I think Lennart is doing a _terrific_ job; I'm hoping Ubuntu technical board understands the need to be careful about merging new stuff to avoid regressions. This experience has been quiet painful for me and I suspect there is other people still out there with PA related regressions. DS. I think it would be a good idea to address this situation for Jaunty by making sure that people who lost audio/mic in hardy->intrepid upgrade will get it back automatically when upgrading to jaunty. Essentially, either pulseaudio has to be fixed so that it works on intel-hda cards with realtek chipset (which is what I got) or pulseaudio needs to be excluded from jaunty ("yeah right"?). I'm not sure which alternative is easier/cheaper but it sounds like fixing PA is the way forward? Or, fixing the ALSA driver if that is the real issue. This is sort of old news, so has there been any progress on this already maybe? Disclaimer: Yes, Skype is proprietary and that sucks; but due to strong network effects FLOSS is going to have to find a way to deal with this app for some time. There is no point in me installing Ekiga unless it's interoperable with Skype because most of the people I talk to use Skype/win32 (and right now I can't get them to switch). Martin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
