(Solved) Skype sound problems

[connys]

After I installed the KDE 2010 final I installed some programs I use, among them Skype.  The first day Skype v 2.1.0.47 worked well and the sound was ok. However the next day I could hear but the person I was talking to couldn't hear me. I tried to do some normal changes in the programs sound settings and changed the system standard to the card specific for my microphone, but nothing helped.

After this I uninstalled Skype and was trying to install an old version 1.4 that had worked well with PCLOS2009, but in this version the mic did not work either. So I uninstalled v1.4 and went for reinstalling the 2.1.0.47 again. However only the skype_static version not the skype is now found in the repositories, so I installed that which showed out to be the latest version 2.1.0.81. But no working mic this time either!

I have always had sound setting problems with Skype on Linux. In PCLOS 2009 one solution was to uninstall the Pulseadio and use Skype v1.4. This time in PCLOS 2010 I now got it to work with Skype_static v2.1.0.81 and by installing Pulseaudio! Letś see for how long...

[menotu]

Hi Connys,

To help other forum members, when you're happy that your Pulseaudio fix has worked to your satisfaction can you mark this post Solved.

Ta

[connys]

The fun lasted only for some hours. Pulseaudio was unstable form me, when trixing with Audacity and Kmix sound levels Skype lost all sound. Skype worked again after restart, but stopped working after I tried to play with Audacity again. So I unstalled the Pulseadudio and restarted the machine. Now Skype seem to work and I can also mix with the sound mixer. I guess something must have been fixed for Skype v2.1.0.81.

So don't install Pulseaudio to make Skype sound work! Just update to 2.1.0.81...

[menotu]

The fun lasted only for some hours. Pulseaudio was unstable form me, when trixing with Audacity and Kmix sound levels Skype lost all sound. Skype worked again after restart, but stopped working after I tried to play with Audacity again. So I unstalled the Pulseadudio and restarted the machine. Now Skype seem to work and I can also mix with the sound mixer. I guess something must have been fixed for Skype v2.1.0.81.

So don't install Pulseaudio to make Skype sound work! Just update to 2.1.0.81...

Hi Connys - yup, other posters had removed Pulseaudio to get their Skype setup working so it did seem a mite odd that yours was working doing the reverse!    

Pleased things are A.O.K. for you now. Have fun.

[wlan]

Just finished setup on new install of PCLinuxOS 2010 Gnome. I am surprised that Skype works so far with pulse-audio installed. The test will be tomorrow night when i talk to my gran-daughters for 30-45 minutes.
Will post back.

regards