Hi,
I installed Skype on 11.4 KDE and it uses pulseaudio and the MIC is not working. Earlier there used to be multiple options in the Audio Setup section in Skype but now there is just pulseaudio.
Please let me know how to resolve this issue, its very critical for my business because all my clients are on Skype.
Regards
just to add, I had similar issue on KDE - mic wouldn’t work after I suspended my laptop. Switched to gnome - works fine.
Still it would be great if somebody proposed a better solution…
Have you tried running skype from your user account but from the terminal window? you may see some output and errors when you select or use the mic…
Yes I did and there is no error.
Sorry to hear that, I also have pulseaudio only in the skype audio options, but everything work (gnome desktop here)
Well with GNOME, there is no problem … I’m going to switch to GNOME now, but I would really appreciate the help because I love KDE and want to switch back as soon as this issue is resolved.
On 2011-03-15 03:36, anantg wrote:
> Well with GNOME, there is no problem … I’m going to switch to GNOME
> now, but I would really appreciate the help because I love KDE and want
> to switch back as soon as this issue is resolved.
You can search about how to not use pulse in KDE, this has been reported
before.
Plus, if you depend on something for your business, you should have tested
it before committing the upgrade.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Well, It was working fine on openSUSE 11.3 and I had no idea that it wont work after upgrade. I did search about disabling the pulse but I didn’t want to messup the things. I’m always in impression that the SuSE team do a lot of testing and make sure if things are working fine so if they have enabled only PULSE then there must be some reason…
On 03/15/2011 04:06 PM, anantg wrote:
>
> I’m always in impression that
> the SuSE team do a lot of testing and make sure if things are working
> fine
but, you can’t always expect the “SuSE team” to have tested against
every known (and unknown) application, using every possible mix of
sound boards, web cams, graphics chips, etc etc etc etc…
and, therefore as a user of openSUSE (especially one who uses it in
commercial ventures) you should think of yourself as the tester of
Skype (and other crucial to your business software) on YOUR system…
now there are two ways for you to proceed: you can maybe figure out a
workaround now and wait until the day 11.5 is released to see if your
needs or met out of the box…
or you can download and TEST 11.5 Milestone 1 when it come out, and
if the things you NEED don’t work you can log a bug against it…and,
THEN on 11.5 release day there is a real good possibility that you
have contributed to your own happiness…
in other words, had you brought up this problem last September (when
11.4 milestone 1 came out) you would probably be smiling today…
11.5 development schedule should appear here soon:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap
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On 2011-03-15 16:06, anantg wrote:
> I’m always in impression that
> the SuSE team do a lot of testing
/You/ are the openSUSE team.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Well, you guys are right we are the SuSE team … and I should have tested when the milestone 1 was released. So, what should we do now …
Did you look at your mixer settings? Do you have the capture control muted set too low etc?
The capture was not muted and wasn’t at the low. I just switched to Gnome and its working fine there, but still trying to figure out the cause.
I am using Skype with 11.4, KDE4.6, & PulseAudio just fine, after the following tweak, maybe it helps here too? (It’s just a blind guess.)
It did not work out of the box (see my post in multimedia-subforum). The solution for me was to delete all KMix related configuration files in .kde4 and restart it, then choosing the right input in Phonon and KMix.
Skype’s own setting are left to Pulse (no choice anyway), but you have to select the right device in Phonon for Communication. Not all device names were obvious in my case, so I just tried them to see which was which, until I found the ones that worked.
In my case Phonon shows two devices in the Communication and even if I change the order it doesn’t work. Skype just shows the “pulseaudio”.
I had a similar problem after installing 11.4. My mic is built into the USB web cam, and Skype didn’t capture through it.
Under System Settings, i went to Multimedia and checked the devices. sure enough, the USB MIC was second in the order of capture. i changed it (prefer, move up), restarted Skype and now it’s working.
Hi guys, I’m able to make the mic work but I dont know what else is messedup so far because of what I did. I uninstalled pulseaudio and then I get the long list of input/output hardware in skype now selecting one of them solved the issue.
Do you guys know what sound system its using now, after pulseaudio is removed?
I had simmilar problems. Sound stopt working after few hours. I reinstaled OpenSuse without PULSE. Now works everything fine.
Pulse making problems.
Hi All,
I use Skype with Gnome. Don’t know about KDE issue. But if it can be useful my Logitech webcam micro didn’t work first.
1st step > in the control planel / sound setup > be careful about setup between the sound card and the webcam > switch the sound card setup from “analog duplex stereo” to “analog stereo output” + setup webcam to “analog mono input”. If not there is a conflict with input way. Skype vocal setup only offers “pulseaudio server” that doesn’t care.
2 nd > since i setup the “opensuse buildservice - webcam drivers” in the repositories manager all work fine !
An alternative solution is to use a standalone micro plugged onto sound card waitting other resolve. Don’t forgot to shutdown webcam micro and setup “analog stereo duplex” for sound card into sound setup.
see u
by the way guys can anyone tell me which version of skype is compitable with openSUSE 11.4, I’m on gnome too. 