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[SOLVED] Pulseaudio problem with Skype
#1
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Hi there! I installed CentOS 6.2. Everythnig was OK but I found the problem with the sound. When I play some song and push Skype, the music stopped and Skype sound is very bad - login sound, call sound - everything. I cannot change "sound Device" - all is marked as "Pulseaudio server (local)" and cannot change it. When I remove pulseaudio the sound works fine but there is no sound options in - System - Preferences - Sound and volume control from my keyboard doesn't work. What can I do - is it possible to use alsamixer and what do I have to do? Thank you!
Posted on: 2012/3/10 16:31
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  •  YBellefeuille
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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This seems to be the problem that's mentioned at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype#head-177735ac44d30e5df3c59d6c7917d01eb8245140 . The only solution i know is to remove pulseaudio-libs.i686. Skype does work properly with pulseaudio-libs.x86_64.
Posted on: 2012/3/10 22:59
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  •  icemans
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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I find pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-13.el6 (i686) in "Add/Remove Software" but when i chesk it to be remove i see that have to be removed more 107 additional packages. Is this normal???

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Posted on: 2012/3/11 14:55
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  •  pschaff
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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Dependencies are normal. Is this on i386 or x86_64? (Try "uname -rmi" if unsure.)

YBellefeuille was referring to a 64-bit system with the 32-bit package also installed - not a situation one would normally find on CentOS-6 x86_64, which is not multi-arch by default.
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Posted on: 2012/3/11 17:04
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  •  icemans
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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uname -rmi
2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.i686 i686 i386

OK! Then I have to remove all 107 packages, right?
Posted on: 2012/3/11 18:34
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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Hey guys! I just removed pulseaudio and install alsamixer. But now my keyboard buttons for volume control don't work. I get the nice message of "Waiting for sound system to respond" when I try open Volume Control from System-Preferences-Sounds. May be gnome-volume-control is missing. How can I use my keyboard shortcut with alsamixer and how can I see a graphic volume slider on my desktop when I adust the volume control. What do I have to do?
Posted on: 2012/3/12 11:02
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  •  pschaff
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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Quote:

icemans wrote:
OK! Then I have to remove all 107 packages, right?

Wrong.

Quote:

Hey guys! I just removed pulseaudio and install alsamixer. But now my keyboard buttons for volume control don't work. I get the nice message of "Waiting for sound system to respond" when I try open Volume Control from System-Preferences-Sounds. May be gnome-volume-control is missing. How can I use my keyboard shortcut with alsamixer and how can I see a graphic volume slider on my desktop when I adust the volume control. What do I have to do?

Reinstall the packages you removed. Did you not understand the distinction between an extra 32-bit package on x86_64 and the primary package on your 32-bit i386 install?
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Posted on: 2012/3/12 12:13
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  •  icemans
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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OK! And what do you recommend me to do? To restore pulseaudio and then what?
Posted on: 2012/3/12 12:53
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  •  pschaff
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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Simply reinstalling pulseaudio will not restore the rest of the 107 removed packages. If you did not preserver the list you should be able to find it in /var/log/yum.log. After restoring the packages we can then try to debug the original audio issues.
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Posted on: 2012/3/12 13:59
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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OK! And I will have to remove alsamixer, right? Is it not possible to use pulseaudio instead alsa?
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  •  pschaff
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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No. You should not have to remove alsa-utils which provides alsamixer:
# rpm -qa \*audio\* \*alsa\* | sort
alsa-lib-1.0.22-3.el6.i686
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.22-3.el6.i686
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.21-3.el6.i686
alsa-utils-1.0.21-3.el6.i686
audiofile-0.2.6-11.1.el6.i686
kde-settings-pulseaudio-4.3.1-1.el6.centos.noarch
pulseaudio-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-libs-devel-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
# rpm -qf `which alsamixer`
alsa-utils-1.0.21-3.el6.i686
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Posted on: 2012/3/12 14:32
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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OK! I reinstall pulseaudio
#  rpm -qa \*audio\* \*alsa\* | sort
alsa-driver-1.0.25-95.el6.i686
alsa-kmdl-2.6.32-220.el6-1.0.25-95.el6.i686
alsa-lib-1.0.22-3.el6.i686
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.9.rc2.el6.i686
alsa-utils-1.0.21-3.el6.i686
audiofile-0.2.6-11.1.el6.i686
gnome-alsamixer-0.9.6-5.el6.i686
kmod-alsa-1.0.25-2.el6.elrepo.i686
pulseaudio-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-13.el6.i686
python-alsa-1.0.21-1.el6.i686

# rpm -qf `which alsamixer`
alsa-utils-1.0.21-3.el6.i686

Now my microphone doesn't work again. When I change "Input source" to be "Rear mic" in Alsamixer everything is OK. But after restart the microphone doesn't work again. In System-Preferences-Sound I tried to change options in "Input" tab but doesn't matter what I change - Line in or Microphone, the microphone doesn't work.
Posted on: 2012/3/12 19:53
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  •  pschaff
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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If you have a working configuration try the alsactl options store and restore.
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Posted on: 2012/3/12 19:59
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  •  icemans
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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Nothing! After restart the mic doesn't work.
Posted on: 2012/3/12 20:14
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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Did you do "alsactl store" with the working configuration as root? Did you try "alsactl restore" after the reboot?
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Posted on: 2012/3/12 21:08
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  •  icemans
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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Yes I did it but didn't run "alsactl -restore" after reboot :) Now I tried it and the microphone works fine. What do I have to do now?
Posted on: 2012/3/12 21:42
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  •  pschaff
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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Unless someone can suggest a more elegant solution, I'd try
echo "alsactl restore" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
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Posted on: 2012/3/12 22:48
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  •  icemans
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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I will looking for other some solution or will try this. Thank you, pschaff! Thank you very much ;)
Posted on: 2012/3/13 10:16
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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You are welcome. Please let us know if you consider the issue resolved, or if you find a better solution.
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Posted on: 2012/3/13 12:23
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Re: Pulseaudio problem with Skype
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I just add "alsactl restore" in System->Preferences->Startup Applications. I think this work.
Posted on: 2012/3/14 13:50
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