On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Darren Albers <dalb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
One other note, there are a number of SIP to Skype gateways if you want to stick with Free software on your side. Some of these gateways are even free software themselves. -- 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
