On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Chuck Hast wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I try to start up a call session I get the error message "problem
>>>> with audio playback". It worked great under 11.0, I have looked at my logs
>>>> to see if I can find something there but no joy. Googling returns all sort
>>>> of issues but with the 64bit code. Sort of frustrating as I just got a
>>>> Basler firewire cam up and working (great video!!) using Coriander, went to
>>>> fire up Skype and realized I had not installed it when I installed 11.1, did
>>>> the install and now I have this error message. Has anyone else seen this
>>>> one??
>>>
>>> Can't get either webcam to work with Skype or Kopete or in VMware, but
>>> they both work standalone in an mplayer window. ::sigh::
>>>
>>> About yours, make sure you can record something (using e.g. arecord).
>>> Make sure Skype's set to the right input. IIRC there's a "person" you can
>>> call that plays back what you say after a delay. How's that work?
>>
>> That is the problem. when I select it I get the message at the bottom of
>> that screen that says "problem with audio playback".
>
> IIRC Skype uses OSS, not native ALSA. Make sure you have OSS emulation
> enabled.
>
Opps, where do I find OS emulation, should I start pulseaudio back up and
then enable it??
Not sure why they added the pulseaudio thing it always seemed like it
worked just fine before, never seemed to have to fool with it unless I was
trying to set up a particular input or something, but never seemed to have
much problem with audio..
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