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Arrghh. After I’ve upgraded a couple of packages on my Debian unstable I’ve came across the
same old problem. Skype’s sound input, output and ringing refused to work again.
It took me like 4 hours to resolve the problem!!!!! ARGHHHH.
It’s the right time to say that skype is a complete diarrhia m*ther fucking bullshit!
I’ve tried evething. Like experimting with volume settings in:
1. /usr/bin/gnome-volume-control.gstreamer2. /usr/bin/gnome-volume-control3. /usr/bin/gnome-alsamixer4. /usr/bin/aumixthe list goes on !! You name it. And everytime it was nothing.I’ve realised some of the updates mangled my /etc/pulse/daemon.conf .
Thus I had to add again default-fragments = 8default-fragment-size-msec = 5 into it.
I’ve tried everything my ~/.asoundrc pcm.pulse { type pulse}ctl.pulse { type pulse}pcm.!default { type pulse}ctl.!default { type pulse}pcm.card0 { type hw card 0}ctl.card0 { type hw card 0}pcm.dsp0 { type plug slave.pcm "hw:0,0" }
Well that’s not all the latest update of the lib32asound2-plugins Debian package is missing the pulseaudio required libraries
. Huh ?!
Anyways let’s get back to business.
To make skype work I had to create the following script:
#!/bin/shexport SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pulse;/usr/bin/linux32 /opt/Skype/skype_static-2.0.0.72/skype
in /usr/local/bin/skype
Next I had to execute:
amixer set 'Input Source' 'Internal Mic' and echo "amixer set 'Input Source' 'Internal Mic'" >> /etc/rc.local
And yes you need to have downloaded static version of skype 2.0.0.72 and put it in /opt/Skype/ directory.
Well if you’re lucky. Hooray Skype might work again ? If God fix it for you 🙂
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