No Outgoing Sound with Skype
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. Regards, Craig
Re: No Outgoing Sound with Skype
Craig Moore wrote: > I've been trying to use skype (unsucessfully) for some time. I've check this page, if not already, do a find for 'skype' setup. http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup > I've read somewhere that there might be a problem with my firewall?!? If > so, then how would I check? have you tried a temporary disable of firewall? see; http://search.skype.com/search?q=firewall&site=collection_en-us&client=default_en-us&proxystylesheet=default_en-us&output=xml_no_dtd in addition, you may want to try 'linux-me...@vger.kernel.org'. log; http://vger.kernel.org for info to join list. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
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.
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
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
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: 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
suvayu ali wrote: > > AFAIK skype doesn't use pulseaudio so the lack of pulseaudio should > not be a problem. But I maybe wrong. > It doesn't support pulseaudio, much to the annoyance of those of us who use more up-to-date distros than RHEL/SL at home.
Re: No Outgoing Sound with Skype
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 09:47 +0200, Tim Edwards wrote: > suvayu ali wrote: > > > > > AFAIK skype doesn't use pulseaudio so the lack of pulseaudio should > > not be a problem. But I maybe wrong. > > > It doesn't support pulseaudio, much to the annoyance of those of us who > use more up-to-date distros than RHEL/SL at home. I just wish there was one clear winner among the distros for audio, instead of the plethora of audio architectures out there, but I digress ... According to the skype webpage's support section here: http://www.skype.com/help/guides/soundsetup_linux.html Quote: > OSS (Open Sound System): The oldest sound support available in Linux. > This type is natively supported by Skype. > ALSA is more modern than OSS. Currently, Skype does not natively > support ALSA, so you will need to install ALSA OSS emulation layer in > order to use ALSA devices in Skype. > ESD (Enlightened Sound Daemon): This is GNOME default. Run Skype > through esddsp pipe to enable sound. Do it like this (again, assuming > you are in the directory where skype executable resides): > esddsp ./skype > Be sure to run esd daemon using "esd -d /dev/dsp" because on some > distros (e.g. Gentoo) the esddsp wrapper checks for parameters present > to esd daemon and won't detect the daemon if there are no parameters. Anyone every tried to configure either the OSS emulation layer for alsa, or alternatively used the ESD method? I tried looking for an alsa emulation layer for OSS support, but a quick search in SL repositories returned no results for the keyword 'oss'. I'm running GNOME so I have esd installed, but I get this: > $ esd -d /dev/dsp > - using device /dev/dsp > ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM /dev/dsp Also, I tried > $ esddsp ./skype with no errors, but I still can't hear my recorded message when I use the test service. I'm not sure what to do now, but I thought this e-mail might jog someone's memory on how it could be done? Regards, Craig
