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Re: [LUG] Skype on Linux

 

On 13/04/10 08:54, Juan J. MartÃnez wrote:

I had several problems with Skype, but it's becasue of Pulseaudio
support:

  - Work laptop, Ubuntu: problems with Pulseaudio, but fixed.
  - Alex netbook, Ubuntu: problems with Pulseadio, no fix... moved back
to esd.
  - My mom's desktop, Ubuntu: everything rocked out-of-the-box, I don't
know why.
  - Alex's mom's desktop, Ubuntu: problems with Pulseaudio, no fix...
moved back to esd.
  - Personal laptop, Fedora: works like a charm!

I hope Ubuntu fixes that Pulseaudio hell ASAP, because esd it's
officially dead. Moreover, I moved to Fedora to avoid dealing with it,
and everybody around me insists on using Ubuntu (and I have to fix it!).

I've had some issues with PulseAudio (not specifically with Skype, that seems to just work. However I've had issues with other apps, usually it requires me to use a wrapper such as padsp (which wraps OSS in PulseAudio) or aoss (which wraps OSS in Alsa). Of course using these wrappers requires the app to support OSS. It's not always a solution but on some occasions it's worked.

Rob


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