skype problems

[Gene Heskett]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Lauri wrote:
>>> Actually 2 of them.
>>>
>>> 1. I can only make one connection per reboot, otherwise there is 
>>> "something wrong with the audio device" when a new connection is 
>>> attempted.  My headphones continue to function normally.  And my own 
>>> voice is flawless both in my phones and at the other end of the call.
>>>
>>
>> This is a known bug, Skype doesn't close the device. Restarting Skype
>> fixes that.
>>
>> Use skype_dsp_hijacker.
> 
> Ok, got .7 and installed it.  And it still isn't closing the device. 
> There is not a skype_dsp_hijacker process to be found by the usual 
> means, like a ps -ea or htop, but the sound device is still blocked.
> It does report the workaround is in use, but apparently for naught.
>  It appears that I'm back to the one use per reboot again.
> 
>>
>> See: http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=32290
>>
>>> 2.  Reception is very intermittent, and coupled with a lot of 
>>> chuttering noises.  This I verified is on my end by trying the 
>>> echo123 facility, even the ladies recorded voice was chopped up into 
>>> just fractions of a word here and there.
>>>
>>
>> This is also a common problem. I fixed this with dmix-ing.
>>
>> See: http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=4068
>> My solution: http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?p=197195#197195

Ok, these links include a couple of pages worth of stuff that looks as 
if it *might* belong in /etc/asound.conf.  But nowhere on these pages 
does it actually say what file is being edited to add this stuff.

Is it indeed /etc/asound.conf?  Bear in mind this is an FC5 system fully 
uptodate with yumex.

>>> As a point of note, skype only opens a path to /dev/dsp once on the 
>>> reboot and restart.  It shows 3 opens to /dev/mixer when a failed 
>>> call to echo123 is live, and leaves 2 of them behind when it has been 
>>> hung up.
>>>
>>> The audio system is an ATX in an HP laptop.  OS is 386 FC5 with all 
>>> updates on an amd64 turion system.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have a clue to share?
>>>
>>
>> Lauri
>>
>>
> 
> 


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Cheers, Gene