On 22/06/2014 18:53, Mick wrote: > I was surprised to find that skype now has the pulseaudio flag set as a > default. Well, that didn't really surprise me, but what did is that after I > unset the pulseaudio flag and emerged skype-4.3.0.37, audio in skype no > longer > works. :-/ > > The skype website says that alsa is no longer supported without pulseaudio in > their freshly cut Microsoft-owned code. Why is then the pulseaudio flag > provided in portage, if without audio skype would lose its core functionality > - i.e. making voice calls? I guess someone may only use it for IM chat, but > that I would think is an edge use case. Most people I know would use it for > voice and perhaps video calls. > > In any case, should I install pulseaudio? So far I had not missed it in my > world to manage my audio needs. Looking at the wiki page: > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PulseAudio > > it seems awfully complicated to me, for something which for my purposes would > be just a new 'alsamixer'. :p > > Are you using PA and how would you suggest I go about installing and > configuring it (if I must) for minimal interference with my audio usage? >
Why don't you rather peg skype at the last version know to work with alsa, and mask everything newer? If it were me, I'd switch to PA because I wanted to, not because skype made me. And I don't think you'd be running any additional security risk - skype is rather likely to be riddled with bugs that never get fixed anyway... OK, my cynic side is showing, but you get the drift -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
