Suse 11.2 x64/KDE 4.4 I know this seems to come up on a regular basis, but have looked and unable to find any fix.... Had skype running ok previously, thought i would take the plunge and try pulse audio - didn't work (struggled for ages trying to get *any* input - think it has an issue with my sound hardware - 82801JI...) so have uninstalled pulse audio (well, the bits I installed - Pulseaudio and the bits it automatically removes with it - leaves the volume control/admin and various other bits and plugins) Most things seem to be back to normal, but... there is no input into Skype. In Skype, I cannot choose any sound devices, only have "default" with no other choices. Have tried different versions of Skype, the latest (rpm, dynamic and static), and 2 previous versions which were working PRE-pulse... Any ideas on how to get Skype to recognise something...?? Thanks, John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 07:56 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
Suse 11.2 x64/KDE 4.4 I know this seems to come up on a regular basis, but have looked and unable to find any fix....
Had skype running ok previously, thought i would take the plunge and try pulse audio - didn't work (struggled for ages trying to get *any* input - think it has an issue with my sound hardware - 82801JI...) so have uninstalled pulse audio (well, the bits I installed - Pulseaudio and the bits it automatically removes with it - leaves the volume control/admin and various other bits and plugins) Most things seem to be back to normal, but... there is no input into Skype. In Skype, I cannot choose any sound devices, only have "default" with no other choices. Have tried different versions of Skype, the latest (rpm, dynamic and static), and 2 previous versions which were working PRE-pulse... Any ideas on how to get Skype to recognise something...?? Thanks, John.
Hi, I don't know if this will fix your problem, but pulseaudio never worked for me on Skype either, so I had to go back to Alsa. After I get rid of pulseaudio, I run alsaconfig or alsaconf in terminal as root, I forget which command it is. Then, I go into yast and configure the sound card. It has always been unconfigured after this process. After that, I select Skype configuration in skype, and set up the microphone. It usually takes quite a bit of time to get it working right in the configuration. I have to lower the volume of several items to get good microphone sound for the call. I know that this doesn't exactly answer your problem, but maybe by doing the steps I have written your problem will go away. Good luck! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 28/04/10 08:23, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 07:56 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
Suse 11.2 x64/KDE 4.4 I know this seems to come up on a regular basis, but have looked and unable to find any fix....
Hi, I don't know if this will fix your problem, but pulseaudio never worked for me on Skype either, so I had to go back to Alsa.
After I get rid of pulseaudio, I run alsaconfig or alsaconf in terminal as root, I forget which command it is. Then, I go into yast and configure the sound card. It has always been unconfigured after this process.
After that, I select Skype configuration in skype, and set up the microphone. It usually takes quite a bit of time to get it working right in the configuration. I have to lower the volume of several items to get good microphone sound for the call.
I know that this doesn't exactly answer your problem, but maybe by doing the steps I have written your problem will go away.
Good luck!
*/Thanks for the reply. Tried Alsaconf, but apparently this is no longer the way in 11.2. When I run it, I get/* "no supported pnp or pci card found". Can find NO solution!! Is there a way to do a fresh detect (as if reinstalling - that worked!)? Have tried deleting /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf and rebooting, but did no good... If I restart alsasound I get: oss:/etc/init.d # ./alsasound restart ALSA lib conf.c:3601:(snd_config_update_r) Cannot access file /etc/alsa-pulse.conf ALSA lib control.c:902:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:1 /usr/sbin/alsactl: get_controls:552: snd_ctl_open error: No such file or directory Shutting down sound driver done Starting sound driver: hda-intel and a pop-up saying that KDE wants to delete various HDA Intel hardware (3x capture and 3x output...) Any assistance appreciated... Thanks, John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Bennett wrote:
On 28/04/10 08:23, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 07:56 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
Suse 11.2 x64/KDE 4.4 I know this seems to come up on a regular basis, but have looked and unable to find any fix....
Hi, I don't know if this will fix your problem, but pulseaudio never worked for me on Skype either, so I had to go back to Alsa.
After I get rid of pulseaudio, I run alsaconfig or alsaconf in terminal as root, I forget which command it is. Then, I go into yast and configure the sound card. It has always been unconfigured after this process.
After that, I select Skype configuration in skype, and set up the microphone. It usually takes quite a bit of time to get it working right in the configuration. I have to lower the volume of several items to get good microphone sound for the call.
I know that this doesn't exactly answer your problem, but maybe by doing the steps I have written your problem will go away.
Good luck!
*/Thanks for the reply. Tried Alsaconf, but apparently this is no longer the way in 11.2. When I run it, I get/* "no supported pnp or pci card found". Can find NO solution!! Is there a way to do a fresh detect (as if reinstalling - that worked!)? Have tried deleting /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf and rebooting, but did no good... If I restart alsasound I get:
oss:/etc/init.d # ./alsasound restart ALSA lib conf.c:3601:(snd_config_update_r) Cannot access file /etc/alsa-pulse.conf ALSA lib control.c:902:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:1 /usr/sbin/alsactl: get_controls:552: snd_ctl_open error: No such file or directory Shutting down sound driver done Starting sound driver: hda-intel
and a pop-up saying that KDE wants to delete various HDA Intel hardware (3x capture and 3x output...)
Any assistance appreciated... Thanks, John.
I use gnome and have a similiar problem. I found that skype will only look at pulse audio. The way I work around the problem is to go to the audio system and change the hardware associated with the microphone and speaker. -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 21:14 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote:
I use gnome and have a similiar problem. I found that skype will only look at pulse audio. The way I work around the problem is to go to the audio system and change the hardware associated with the microphone and speaker.
Where do you go when you "go to the audio system"? That information might help others (like me) try your solution. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 29/04/10 14:14, Joseph Loo wrote:
John Bennett wrote:
On 28/04/10 08:23, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 07:56 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
etc/alsa-pulse.conf and a pop-up saying that KDE wants to delete various HDA Intel hardware (3x capture and 3x output...)
Any assistance appreciated... Thanks, John.
I use gnome and have a similiar problem. I found that skype will only look at pulse audio. The way I work around the problem is to go to the audio system and change the hardware associated with the microphone and speaker.
*/Well, after little (read NO) success trying to get things to work without pulse, I made sure that I had removed all I could to do with it, then did an install of 'almost' everything that even mentioned pulse, and, guess what??? - Now almost everything is working - even Skype, although the sound from Skype is rather dodgy - fairly "broken" and "clipped"... But at least things are now working/*. Thanks, John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:05 AM, John Bennett
On 29/04/10 14:14, Joseph Loo wrote:
John Bennett wrote:
On 28/04/10 08:23, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 07:56 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
etc/alsa-pulse.conf
and a pop-up saying that KDE wants to delete various HDA Intel hardware (3x capture and 3x output...)
Any assistance appreciated... Thanks, John.
I use gnome and have a similiar problem. I found that skype will only look at pulse audio. The way I work around the problem is to go to the audio system and change the hardware associated with the microphone and speaker.
*/Well, after little (read NO) success trying to get things to work without pulse, I made sure that I had removed all I could to do with it, then did an install of 'almost' everything that even mentioned pulse, and, guess what??? - Now almost everything is working - even Skype, although the sound from Skype is rather dodgy - fairly "broken" and "clipped"... But at least things are now working/*. Thanks, John.
John, I had very similar symptoms, though my HW is different. Is your Audio chip recognized as Intel HD or AC'97? Mine is Intel HD on VT 1708s and I had all your symptoms in openSUSE 11.1/KDE3, 11.2 and Kubuntu 9.10/KDE4. (I do not have pulse audio.) To resolve it I had to install latest alsa driver (1.0.22 or later, I used "multimedia" repository of oS build service). Then I had to use alsa command line mixer (not KDE one) to experiment with levels of different channels. After everything except skype worked, while Skype mic input was "clipped", weak and distorted, I've read in Skype forum that many people had this problem with latest Skype 2.1.0.81 and someone mentioned that previous version 2.1.0.47 worked. I tried that one and it worked for me too (I also disabled Skype option to adjust mixer levels). But you mentioned that you tried a number of older versions, so not sure it is the same issue. I mostly used these links while fighting with this issue: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AudioTroubleshooting http://en.opensuse.org/Skype_HOWTO Regards, -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Joseph Loo wrote:
I use gnome and have a similiar problem. I found that skype will only look at pulse audio.
Surely not true, else I would not be able to use it on my machine... But indeed I also had major trouble getting the microphone to work. The final solution had been that the capture device is per default off, and you have to activate it: Start alsamixer, press F4 (show capture controls), go to the capture entry and activate it with <space>. After that, go to skype options, select audio and 'default device' for mic, and do a test call - it *should* work. At least for me it does... Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin@royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8507 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin@astro.su.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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