Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

[Darren Albers]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Darren Albers <dalbers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

One other note, there are a number of SIP to Skype gateways if you
want to stick with Free software on your side.   Some of these
gateways are even free software themselves.