[pulseaudio-discuss] installing header files

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 16/08/09 21:58 did gyre and gimble:
> On Tue, 11.08.09 09:31, James Bottomley (James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com) wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 21:36 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: 
>>> On Tue, 11.08.09 05:25, Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey at boosthardware.com) wrote:
>>>
>>>>> That Skype is a mess is not really anything free software folks can do
>>>>> anything about. It's closed source. The Linux version is barely
>>>>> maintained and does about everything wrong that it can do wrong. I
>>>>> know that some folks believe that Skype's incompat with PA is my
>>>>> problem. But quite frankly, it is not. It's Skype's problem.
>>>> It's not actually. It's the users problem because when they use skype  
>>>> they can't use pulseaudio. Unless of course they have a second sound  
>>>> device such as a usb phone. I personally do have one and maybe it should  
>>>> be recommended as the correct way to use skype on a Linux Audio
>>>> system.
>>> Hmm, not sure why having a second audio device should solve any
>>> problems Skype has with PA. Everything Skype can do with the second
>>> audio device it should be able to do with the first.
>> He means hide the second audio device from PA and use it natively in
>> ALSA for skype.  It's a solution; just not a very elegant one.
> 
> Hmm, but he could temporarily hide the first one too. In fact there is
> a tool "pasuspender" which does just that for cases like this.

Yeah but:

pasuspender + app that should basically run for as long as you are 
logged in != sense.

By having a second card that's not used by pulse allows people to use 
skype. It's ugly and should be unnecessary but such is life.

I seem to have a *lot* of people that use skype complaining about this. 
It's a very popular program such is the ugly truth :(

I do hope they release their fabled new version sooner rather than later 
as it will shut up a large channel of support/complaints I have to field 
:( Tho' I'm not holding my breath...

Col


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