Re: No Outgoing Sound with Skype
Craig Moore wrote: > I've been trying to use skype (unsucessfully) for some time. I've > googled, looked at bugs, and read through forms with no luck. I can hear > the audio fine, and I've tested the microphone using alsamixer and it > works. That's definitely the first thing to check. > However, when I make a test call I can hear the prerecorded message, > but when I record my message it isn't repeated so there is no > outgoing audio. > > I've read somewhere that there might be a problem with my firewall?!? If > so, then how would I check? > > Here are my details: > > Skype 2.0.0.72 > OS SL5.2.x86_64 > alsa-utils 1.0.14-3.rc4.el5.x86_64 > Sound Card: Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio > Computer OPTIPLEX 755 DT : INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q660 I have skype-2.0.0.72-centos.i586 SL 5.3 x86_64 alsa-utils-1.0.17-1.el5.x86_64 working on a couple of Dell Precisions. One has the same sound chip as yours. These are normal SL 5.3, with no non-standard audio packages. I think it was also working under SL5.2, but can't remember for sure. I found I sometimes had to fiddle with the skype audio settings. Unchecking "let skype adjust my audio settings" helped in one case. The other thing was that for some reason, one of the systems presented a large number of choices for the input and output sound devices (all with not very meaningful names) in the skype audio settings panel, and it was a question of trying all possible combinations until one worked. It was all very random... I don't know how to test for a firewall problem, other than turning it off (if you have control of it).
Re: No Outgoing Sound with Skype
2009/5/18 Alan Bartlett : > On 18/05/2009, Craig Moore wrote: > >> As you can see, I do not have the pulse audio plugin like you do. I did >> a repo search and there are no pulse audio rpm files available for >> Scientific Linux. Unless I'm doing something wrong. >> >> > $ yum search pulse >> > Loading "kernel-module" plugin >> > No Matches found >> >> Is pulse audio supported by Scientific Linux? Maybe there is a CentOS >> rpm file I could use? > > Sorry Craig, pulse audio is a Fedora package and does not exist in > CentOS 5 or RHEL 5. > AFAIK skype doesn't use pulseaudio so the lack of pulseaudio should not be a problem. But I maybe wrong. What the OP can try would be to use the EPEL packages for pulseaudio. However that has a *considerable* *risk* of making his installation unstable as those packages are merely Fedora packages repackaged for RHEL and RHEL derivatives. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
Re: WG311T wireless issue
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 22:08 -0500, Steven Timm wrote: > I see the same "Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version > 21" > on a pure Red Hat 5 update 3 machine, so whatever that warning > is coming from, it's not from anything that Troy or the rest of SL > is doing. > I wonder if this is more a 64 bit environment issue than SL (or any other distribution). Besides the warning about driver mismatch, there is the misidentification of the device by both 'iwconfig' and 'lspci' with 64bit SL. There must be other examples of problems like this unique to 64 bit SL environments. > Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 21 of Wireless > Extension, > but has been compiled with version 20, therefore some driver features > may not be available... > > And my wireless is working mostly OK. > 'mostly OK' is about how I would describe how my SL wireless works, too. But there are times when that is not good enough. For example, I connect via VPN to a remote site. On the 32bit system the connection is always immediate and reliable. On the 64bit SL system I can make a connection about 20% of the time. I suspect the negotiation between the VPN client and server is sensitive to the quality of the connection and cannot connect most of the time. That is my biggest problem. Tom R. > > Steve Timm > > > On Sun, 17 May 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: > > > Hi Tom, > > I am going to snip parts of your message out. Not that I don't think it is > > important, but more so I can concentrate on one thing. > > > > Tom Rosmond wrote: > > ... snip ... > >> > >> Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 21 of Wireless > >> Extension, > >> but has been compiled with version 20, therefore some driver features > >> may not be available... > >> > >> wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"olympic"Mode:Managed > >> Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: > >> 00:1B:2F:E3:DF:4A Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm > >> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Link > >> Quality=51/100 Signal level=-62 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm > >> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > >> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > >> > > ... snip ... > >> > >> 3. Although the versions of madwifi and wireless-tools in SL 5.3 should > >> be more current than I installed on the 32 bit system, the warning about > >> version mismatch for the 64 bit system suggests otherwise. This I don't > >> understand. > >> > > ... snip ... > > > > This has me concerned because this isn't the first time I've seen this > > message. > > > > I'm worried that perhaps the machine I am compiling these on has a wrong > > version of a package or two. Despite my efforts I am not the greatest > > wireless expert and it's possible I'm doing something wrong with the > > compiling. From what I can tell, my 32 bit and 64 bit compile area's are > > the > > same for wireless. But maybe I am looking at the wrong packages. > > > > Does anyone know where I should start looking to track down this error? Or > > even if there is anything I can do to fix it? > > > > Troy > > >
Re: No Outgoing Sound with Skype
On 18/05/2009, Craig Moore wrote: > As you can see, I do not have the pulse audio plugin like you do. I did > a repo search and there are no pulse audio rpm files available for > Scientific Linux. Unless I'm doing something wrong. > > > $ yum search pulse > > Loading "kernel-module" plugin > > No Matches found > > Is pulse audio supported by Scientific Linux? Maybe there is a CentOS > rpm file I could use? Sorry Craig, pulse audio is a Fedora package and does not exist in CentOS 5 or RHEL 5. Alan.
Re: No Outgoing Sound with Skype
Thanks for your e-mail. Here are my details using the commands you used: > $ rpm -qa \*skype\* > skype-2.0.0.72-centos.i586 > > $ rpm -qa \*alsa\* > alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5.i386 > alsa-lib-devel-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5.x86_64 > alsa-utils-1.0.14-3.rc4.el5.x86_64 > alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5.x86_64 As you can see, I do not have the pulse audio plugin like you do. I did a repo search and there are no pulse audio rpm files available for Scientific Linux. Unless I'm doing something wrong. > $ yum search pulse > Loading "kernel-module" plugin > No Matches found Is pulse audio supported by Scientific Linux? Maybe there is a CentOS rpm file I could use? Regards, Craig yum search pulse On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 01:34 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > The skype binaries are 32-bit where as your system is 64-bit like > mine. (I know its fedora, but its close enough to SL for this) While > setting up skype for my system after considerable struggle I finally > got it all working the dirty way, installing the 32-bit libraries. > > rpm -qa \*skype\* > skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586 > > rpm -qa \*alsa\* > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.18-2.fc10.x86_64 > alsa-lib-1.0.20-1.fc10.x86_64 > alsa-lib-devel-1.0.20-1.fc10.x86_64 > alsa-lib-1.0.20-1.fc10.i386 > alsa-utils-1.0.20-2.fc10.x86_64 > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.18-2.fc10.i386 > -- Craig Moore PhD Student Ghent University ELIS Department St. Pietersnieuwstraat 41 B-9000 Gent Belgium +32 9 264 34 08 fax: +32 9 264 35 94 http://www.elis.ugent.be/~cmoore/ craig.mo...@elis.ugent.be
Re: No Outgoing Sound with Skype
2009/5/14 Craig Moore : > Hi, > > I've been trying to use skype (unsucessfully) for some time. I've > googled, looked at bugs, and read through forms with no luck. I can hear > the audio fine, and I've tested the microphone using alsamixer and it > works. However, when I make a test call I can hear the prerecorded > message, but when I record my message it isn't repeated so there is no > outgoing audio. > > I've read somewhere that there might be a problem with my firewall?!? If > so, then how would I check? > > Here are my details: > > Skype 2.0.0.72 > OS SL5.2.x86_64 > alsa-utils 1.0.14-3.rc4.el5.x86_64 > Sound Card: Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio > Computer OPTIPLEX 755 DT : INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q660 > > I'd appreciate any help you could provide. > The skype binaries are 32-bit where as your system is 64-bit like mine. (I know its fedora, but its close enough to SL for this) While setting up skype for my system after considerable struggle I finally got it all working the dirty way, installing the 32-bit libraries. rpm -qa \*skype\* skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586 rpm -qa \*alsa\* alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.18-2.fc10.x86_64 alsa-lib-1.0.20-1.fc10.x86_64 alsa-lib-devel-1.0.20-1.fc10.x86_64 alsa-lib-1.0.20-1.fc10.i386 alsa-utils-1.0.20-2.fc10.x86_64 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.18-2.fc10.i386 -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
