Skype sound problems

2009-02-25 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
Regarding Sound. Sometimes I find I get the warning There's a problem with the Sound even though ALSA appears to be configured OK in Mandriva 2009.0 Gnome Desktop. I have an CMedia PCI card installed. I have not tried the Via. Other programmes work fine regarding sound without problems. To fix

Re: Skype sound problems

2009-02-25 Thread Shay Ohayon
Hi Moshe, I also had this problem on my Asus Eee PC, and fixed it installing the E sound daemon (esound package on Debian). I guess this solution might work for you as well. good luck, shay 2009/2/25 Moshe Brace using Yahoo mbrace...@yahoo.co.uk: Regarding Sound. Sometimes I find I get the

Re: Skype sound problems

2009-02-25 Thread Noam Rathaus
Moshe, I had the same issue today with Ubuntu 8.10 I tried: http://www.blog.arun-prabha.com/2008/05/23/skype-microphone-problem-and-complete-pulse-audio-setup-in-ubuntu/ And it worked ok. Hope this helps. On Wednesday 25 February 2009 12:51:53 Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: Regarding Sound.

(A bit off-topic) chess via Skype in Linux. was: Re: Skype sound problems

2009-02-25 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, While we are @skype, I want to offtopic this : I heard that on windows you can play chess via Skype. I wonder: did anybody tried it successfully on Linux ? (and forgive me for this off-topic interrupt) Rgs, DS On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.com

Re: (A bit off-topic) chess via Skype in Linux. was: Re: Skype sound problems

2009-02-25 Thread Dvir Volk
Skype extras (plugins) are AFAIK platform specific. While skype for linux does support them, from what I see on their site, the list for linux is pretty lame: https://extras.skype.com/categories/19/good From looking at the source of one of them, they seem to be written in C++ using Qt, which