Skype

[janne]

tis 2005-04-19 klockan 21:21 -0700 skrev Daniel Robitaille:
> On Tue, 2005-19-04 at 18:06 -0600, nekrataal at spymac.com wrote:
> > 
> > I have troubles with skype and hoary, ive read all over the forums, but no real
> > solution, only killing esd seems to work..i even installed polypaudio since i
> > read somewhere that esddsp skype used to work on warty and warty used
> > polypaudio....anyone knows how to get skype working without killing esd...i
> > really want to be able to hear music and recive call from skype budies...
> > 
> 
> this may work for you for Skype, or may not...or may create some
> undesirable side-effects (see bugzilla for more details).  But if you
> are desperate it may be worth trying:
> 
> *) remove polypaudio and reinstall esound 
> 
> *) in /etc/esound/esd.conf, set auto_spawn=1   (which in my case was my
> default in Warty but not in Hoary)
> 
> *) logout and then login again.


May or may not help, but for me all I had to do was to kill esd and
Skype works. And since esd (and artsd) are more trouble than they are
worth for me in any case, I don't miss it at all.



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