[pulseaudio-discuss] PA 0.9.15 breaks skype again

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Maxim Levitsky at 26/04/09 13:49 did gyre and gimble:
> 0.9.14 seems finally to work fine with skype for both recording and
> playback.
> 
> I installed alsa-lib 1.0.19, and still skype works fine.
> (I had very starange issue with skype crashing when it uses some very
> old api, and it seems that if I take 1.0.19 lib32 package, and manually
> copy libasound.so from it, then it works, otherwise something in dpkg
> strips out these symbols - very strange)
> 
> 
> Still, works fine, but now with PA 0.9.15, it often hangs, and also I
> noticed very hight > 100% volumes in pavucontrol, also if I
> remove ./.pulse this helps temporary, (eg, next time skype starts
> normally and appears to work, but it works for maybe few minutes, then
> same happens)
> 
> Is this known?

I've had reports that the the skype "support" was broken between test8 
and final of 0.9.15.

As I have a 64 bit machine it's actually a bit of a pain to run a git 
bisect, but you should try building test 8 and then test7 to see if it 
starts working again with one of those and then run git bisect to find 
the problem commit. It could be something simple that could be supported 
without too much trouble, but skypes alsa implementation is apparently 
pretty shocking, so supporting things like this, especially when the 
Skype developers completely ignore the linux community's pleas for 
support, is not exactly going to be easy.

Col.


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