skype not working after one call.
 

ok slack 10.2
skype 1.2.0.18

i start skype and make a call, than i hang up and get "/dev/dsp-1: Device or resource busy"in the term.
than when i try to make another call skype says "problem with sound device" and term repeats the same "/dev/dsp-1: Device or resource busy" msg. the only way sofar to fix this is to restart skype.

this happens with skypeout calls (calls to a regular phone) and with short regular calls, it semes to not happen if i have a regular call for more than 3 min.

thanx for any help you can give me at all.

Me too.

Ubuntu Breezy
Skype 1.2.0.18_API

I only get the message if the call has connected. and then I try a second call.

hope someone has an idea.

*bump

nobody has any ideas?
well i guess ill keep trying any input is still appriciated.

This is a well-known bug in Skype. Unfortunately, the Skype guys chose not to fix it in the new releases. But there is a workaround. Just google for "Skype dsp hijacker" and install the newest version (0.6). That worked for me.

Lotharster

assume, thanx man, only problem naw is that the sound is fading in and out, like somebodies messing with a volume knob.
know anything about that?

sound fading, vaguely remember something like that in the skype forum.
Sorry not very helpfull.
Does it do it with echo123 ?

do you have /dev/dsp-1 ?
or maybe other programms uses dsp-1 ?
try to change to /dev/dsp in options
try :
# lsof | grep dsp
see if other programs use this resource , and kill it , then try skype

Solved
 

I posted my solution on the skype forums, i quote it (can't put http links 'til i get 5 posts overall)



As I thought,

just go in the sound directory, remove the hangup.wav file, and skype will stop from overlapping the hangup.wav sound over the conversation sound, causing problems in most systems, where dsp can't treat multiple streams at once.

Hope this works for everybody, I'm almost sure this is definitely the problem you guys all have.

In that case, just say "Grazie!"




Regards

caio80

caio80, this is most helpfull, many thanks. It does work indeed.
mv /usr/share/skype/sound/hangup.wav /usr/share/skype/sound/hangup.wav.disabled
Now that skype is working, will have to learn linphone or something else ;)

in control center > Sound & multimedia > Sound system , set the Auto-suspend if idle after to 1 seccond , and bring back your wav file to original posision
may helps

regards