Skype no sound on fedora
Antonio M
antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Tue May 12 14:50:56 UTC 2009
2009/5/12 Wendell Nichols <wcn00 at shaw.ca>:
> This is a short howto for skype on recent fedora distributions which use the
> pulseaudio system. I had no sound in skype and am going on a trip so I
> needed to resolve that problem. I saw lots of others with the problem on
> the web with mixed results so I'll post the resolution to my problem here
> where its searchable :)
>
> problem: no sound in skype. Pressing the test sound button produced no
> output. sound on the box is working perfectly.
>
> I connected strace to it (strace -f -e trace-open -p 1234) and pressed the
> test sound button. It failed to open some pulseaudio libs in
> /usr/lib/pulse... (I forget exactly which ones... sorry). The problem is
> that while I have a working sound system for most apps Skype is a 32 bit app
> and needs 32 bit pulse support. So I installed:
> yum install pulseaudio.i386 pulseaudio-core-libs.i386
> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386
>
> Then I set the sound device to "pulse" in skype, pressed the test button and
> it made noise!
>
> Hopefully this will help others...
> wcn
>
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http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
hope it can help....
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Antonio Montagnani
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