With Skype, no sound

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Sun Aug 2 13:02:33 UTC 2009


On 07/31/2009 05:12 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Friday 31 July 2009 10:37 AM, Joel Gomberg wrote:
>> On 07/31/2009 10:09 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
>>
>>> I also run a 64 bit system, and I think sound with skype on 64 bit F11
>>> doesn't work like it used to for F10. :(
>>>
>>
>> I'm running F11-x86_64 and don't have any trouble with sound. If you
>> install Skype with yum, it should take care of any 32-bit dependencies.
>>
>
> I have tried but I can't get sound to work. With default settings,
> Skype says audio doesn't seem to work. And if I explicitly choose
> pulse or any other output device, skype seems to hang and starts
> consuming 50% of my cpu when I make the test call.
>
This works on my Fedora 11 X86_64 (from Fedora Forum)

   1. yum install alsa-oss
   2. modprobe snd-mixer-oss
   3. modprobe snd-pcm-oss
   4. aoss -32 skype (or from Gnome menus)



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