Enabling PulseAudio Sound in Mandriva Sound Configuration in the Control Center disables Skype Sound.

I have found with the new Skype Beta that I have just installed that I had to disable PulseAudio sound in Mandriva 2009.1 pwp Sound Configuration Control Center. Doing so allows me to have excellent sound in Skype conversations, however the down side is no sound at Distro bootup or in YouTubes or .swf web pages or when watching presentations. I get around the YouTube by downloading it then using VLC. If I enable Pulse and convert to pulse there's no sound in Skype.

The following is in the Mandriva Control Center Hardware Sound Configuration Trouble Shooter:

The classic bug sound tester is to run the following commands:

- "lspcidrake -v | fgrep -i AUDIO" will tell you which driver your card uses by default
- "grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf" will tell you what driver it currently uses
- "/sbin/lsmod" will enable you to check if its module (driver) is loaded or not
- "/sbin/chkconfig --list sound" and "/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa" will tell you if sound and alsa services are configured to be run on initlevel 3
- "aumix -q" will tell you if the sound volume is muted or not
- "/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp" will tell which program uses the sound card.

Any suggestions?

Moshe

set mixer to pcm and have them all.

Not trying to be funny, but how do I do that?

This is what I have in the Mandriva Sound Configuration dialogue box in the Mandriva 2009.1 (Official) Control Center [on localhost] entered through my root password:

Here you can select an alternative driver (either OSS or ALSA) for your sound card (C-Media Electronics Inc|CM8738).

Driver: C-Media CM18X38 PCI (snd_cmipci [ALSA])

Not Ticked: Enable PulseAudio

Grayed out and boxes not ticked:

Automatic routing from ALSA to PulseAudio
Enable 5.1 sound with Pulse Audio

Ticked box: Enable user switching for audio applications
Ticked box but Grayed out: Use Glitch-Free mode

I've tried ticking Enable PulseAudio, and the new Skype wouldn't work this why I removed the tick disabling PulseAudio.

Problem appears sold with YouTubes what I did was.

In the PulseAudio preferences View and modify the configuration of your local sound server dialogue box, I ticked the following boxes:

Enable network access to local sound devices
Allow other machines on the LAN to discover local sound devices
Don't require authentication
Make discoverable network sound devices available locally
Make discoverable Apple Airtunes sound devices available locally

do not understand this. More info please

I found that with the latest version of Skype that default sound does pick up on ALSA finding my CMI8738 sound card.

Even though the new Skype is supposed to support Pulse, I found that the test call to Skype failed to work properly and disabling it in the Mandriva 2010 Console is the only solution. Alsa only has to be used!

By adding to the blacklist the snd-usb-audio it forces Mandriva to recognise at in the ALSA the snd_hda_intel which in turn at boot up starts the sound card as it should.


Youtube sound is working normally so is VLC Media player.

Moshe