Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

[Darren Albers]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Martin Olsson <mnemo at minimum.se> wrote:
> When I upgraded my hardy laptop to intrepid I lost audio/mic in Skype:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/288269/comments/10
>
> Recently someone posted a comment with some steps that fixed the issue for
> me:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/288269/comments/10
>
> ...for _5 months_ I've had people call me on Skype without being able to
> answer the call. Instead I had to press the HANG UP button and then send a
> text based chat message explaining that my microphone didn't work because
> I "upgraded" by Ubuntu. Due to all this bad publicity for Ubuntu, the
> people I usually talk to on Skype won't convert their Windows installs to
> Ubuntu any time soon, that's for sure :-(
>
>
> PS. I think Lennart is doing a _terrific_ job; I'm hoping Ubuntu technical
> board understands the need to be careful about merging new stuff to avoid
> regressions. This experience has been quiet painful for me and I suspect
> there is other people still out there with PA related regressions. DS.
>
> I think it would be a good idea to address this situation for Jaunty by
> making sure that people who lost audio/mic in hardy->intrepid upgrade will
> get it back automatically when upgrading to jaunty. Essentially, either
> pulseaudio has to be fixed so that it works on intel-hda cards with
> realtek chipset (which is what I got) or pulseaudio needs to be excluded
> from jaunty ("yeah right"?). I'm not sure which alternative is
> easier/cheaper but it sounds like fixing PA is the way forward? Or, fixing
> the ALSA driver if that is the real issue.
>
> This is sort of old news, so has there been any progress on this already
> maybe?
>
> Disclaimer: Yes, Skype is proprietary and that sucks; but due to strong
> network effects FLOSS is going to have to find a way to deal with this app
> for some time. There is no point in me installing Ekiga unless it's
> interoperable with Skype because most of the people I talk to use
> Skype/win32 (and right now I can't get them to switch).
>
>
>
> Martin
>

fWIW Skype *Shudder* works fine for me with PulseAudio as does Ekiga
and I have a intel-hda card using a realtek chipset...  Never noticed
a problem that I can think off except maybe my mic was muted and I
used Alsamixer to unmute it.