On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Martin Olsson <mn...@minimum.se> wrote: > 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 >
fWIW Skype *Shudder* works fine for me with PulseAudio as does Ekiga and I have a intel-hda card using a realtek chipset... Never noticed a problem that I can think off except maybe my mic was muted and I used Alsamixer to unmute it. -- 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
