I have just upgraded to 12.04 from 11.10 and miracles do happen. Skype is finally working again! Of course I had to turn up the volume on the USB microphone but that's just a minor quibble.
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Originally posted by Qqmike View PostThat's an encouraging note, tomp01! A[nother] motivator to implement 12.04. Thanks for the info.
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Interesting. Frankly, I have no experience with Skype but have an important need (actually, a few needs) to get on-board with it soon (like yesterday). I still use 8.04.3 because it works flawlessly for me, for what I do and have intended to upgrade (finally) to 12.04, mainly to do Skype. I think I need to get on the stick, install a quick instance of 12.04 on some partition, and try to run Skype. Been procrastinating! Thanks for your input re your experience with it.An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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I forgot to add (with my mind in its current condition I am lucky to remember) that I improved its audio performance signficiantly by removing pulseaudio and all of its subsidiary programs (which didn't ask to remove my desktop) and using KMixer. All of the sliders that used to show up on KMixer came back, including the elusive "Digital" slider. and my volume on Skype was louder, and fuller."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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Originally posted by tomp01 View PostDoes anybody know why you have to unmute the microphone, this has been a perennial bug for several years now?
I just checked Sype's options and could not find any that muted or unmuted the microphone, and the mic mute button on the video panel has never come up muted.
And, I could not find any mic settings in ~/.Skype/ config.xml or other files. Is your sound mixer pre-set to mute the mic?"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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Originally posted by GreyGeek View Postmmm... I have never experienced that "bug" on any version of Kubuntu I've used, nor on Mandirva, orPCLinuxOS.
I just checked Sype's options and could not find any that muted or unmuted the microphone, and the mic mute button on the video panel has never come up muted.
And, I could not find any mic settings in ~/.Skype/ config.xml or other files. Is your sound mixer pre-set to mute the mic?
I don't suppose you know why Skype tends to crash several time before it stays up? That bug has also been around for many moons and distros.
Last edited by tomp01; May 02, 2012, 09:14 AM.
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Originally posted by tomp01 View Post...I don't suppose you know why Skype tends to crash several time before it stays up? That bug has also been around for many moons and distros.
When I first installed Skype it crashed two or three times before it would stay up.
After some updates of the i32lib library files the crashing ceased, but the cure could have been other files I didn't notice or didn't know would affect Skype.
~$ apt-cache rdepends skype
Reverse Depends:
skype-bin:i386
skype-bin:i386
skype:i386
jerry@jerry-Aspire-7739:~$ apt-cache depends skype
skype
Depends: <skype-bin>
skype-bin:i386
Conflicts: skype:i386
:~$
It could be a problem with /etc/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf punching through the D-BUS security, which could mean that your dbus system is flaky:
<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
<!-- ../system.conf have denied everything, so we just punch some holes -->
<policy context="default">
<allow own="com.Skype.API"/>
<allow send_destination="com.Skype.API"/>
<allow receive_sender="com.Skype.API"/>
<allow send_path="/com/Skype"/>
</policy>
</busconfig>Last edited by GreyGeek; May 03, 2012, 09:08 AM."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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One further observation, I removed Pulse Audio from my Linux Mint KDE 12 install and set the sound device to AK5370 USB audio device and the mike now works. En passant, the Skype crashing problem which also used to happen in Mint has apparently gone away.Last edited by tomp01; May 03, 2012, 09:04 AM.
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Originally posted by tomp01 View PostOne further observation, I removed Pulse Audio from my Linux Mint KDE 12 install and set the sound device to AK5370 USB audio device and the mike now works. En passant, the Skype crashing problem which also used to happen in Mint has apparently gone away.
Could you please elaborate which pulse Audio packages needs to be removed? In my case, my webcam's mic is not picked up by skype. I get a message that I have pulse audio available and evidently it wants me to change it. I searched for pulse audio in moun and got a number of packages listed out. I could not decide which one to remove. BTW, I am using Kubuntu 12.04 fully updated and performing very well.
Thanks in advance!
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I searched for "pulseaudio" and then selected "purge" for each installed pulse component, EXCEPT for those which wanted to remove part or all of my KDE desktop."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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Originally posted by GreyGeek View PostI searched for "pulseaudio" and then selected "purge" for each installed pulse component, EXCEPT for those which wanted to remove part or all of my KDE desktop.
I just removed the very first one on the installed list. I believe it was pulseaudio-utils, then I tested skype and it was now OK picking up my webcam mic. I did not remove anything else since all was working well.
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