Skype & microphones / mics

TheOracle · 12-19-2006, 11:44 AM

Hi all

Thought it best to put this in a forum.

See this here if Skype only works the first time:
http://www.skype.com/help/guides/soundsetup_linux.html
...basically you should use OSS over alsa.

See this here is Skype does not work at all:
http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/s...ighlight=skype

Hope this helps

Hangdog42 · 12-19-2006, 04:08 PM

One thing I've seen in the Skype forums is that you need the latest ALSA for the new Skype betas to work using ALSA. I think the minimum acceptable ALSA version is 1.0.13. Anything earlier than that and you'll have weird, choppy sound.

Matir · 12-19-2006, 07:29 PM

Yes, don't use OSS -- for anything. If Skype is not working with ALSA, I would consider that breakage in Skype.

OSS is slated to be completely removed from the kernel in short order and many cards do not have OSS drivers. I know ALSA provides an OSS compatibility layer, but that's intended for things not yet upgraded to handle ALSA, not to handle buggy software.

frenchn00b · 12-24-2007, 06:00 AM

the last skype has now alsa
and works great