On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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..
>
OK, I did a ps -AL and found 3 pulseaudio apps running, did a killall and
now it all works. Cheee.... why break something that works???
Skype now works
VLC continues to work
and the audio recorder now can play back files, I found that it
would record it just would not play back.
Looks like Pulseaudio does not want to play nice with every one
else...
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