Sunday, December 21, 2008

Ubuntu 8.10: Resolving Skype sound issues

It would be safe to say, Skype is the best bet for Voip calls on linux. I have almost given up on a gtalk linux client or a decent jingle client.
On a recent upgrade to Ubuntu Interpid (8.10), Skype 2.0 stopped working. Let us fix this issue and get back to our calls.



$ killall pulseaudio
$ sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install pulseaudio ubuntu-desktop

Great! Run skype and test if everything works.



HOWTO: PulseAudio Fixes & System-Wide Equalizer Support
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7 comments:

  1. Edu12/22/2008 6:19 PM

    Thanx!!! Worked like a charm!!!

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  2. AA12/26/2008 5:06 AM

    hey man! havent seen you on gtalk for quite a while.. what have u been upto?

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  3. Anonymous12/31/2008 2:24 AM

    I had the skype problem as well after upgrading to Intrepid (8.10). Your solution may work, but it's basically ripping out the PulseAudio sound server; why would you want to upgrade, and then remove some of the upgrade features?

    So I looked around some more, and found this:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578

    After following those steps, which are just configuration steps, my skype is working again, and I got to keep the PulseAudio sound server.

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  4. Anonymous1/15/2009 12:55 AM

    I am a novice to ubuntu and linux thing; so i dont know at all what this audio pulsing is for. But after entering the commands i can use skype.

    Thanks
    -Fawad

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  5. Anonymous3/12/2009 12:54 AM

    U R DA BEST K?!!!!!

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  6. Unknown3/17/2009 6:59 AM

    You are my hero.

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  7. Anonymous1/16/2010 6:41 PM

    didn't work for me :-(

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