Arrghh. After I’ve upgraded a couple of packages on my Debian unstable I’ve came across the
same old problem. Skype’s sound input, output and ringing refused to work again.
It took me like 4 hours to resolve the problem!!!!! ARGHHHH.
It’s the right time to say that skype is a complete diarrhia m*ther fucking bullshit!
I’ve tried evething. Like experimting with volume settings in:
1. /usr/bin/gnome-volume-control.gstreamer2. /usr/bin/gnome-volume-control3. /usr/bin/gnome-alsamixer4. /usr/bin/aumixthe list goes on !! You name it. And everytime it was nothing.I’ve realised some of the updates mangled my
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf
.
Thus I had to add again
default-fragments = 8default-fragment-size-msec = 5
into it.
I’ve tried everything my ~/.asoundrc
pcm.pulse { type pulse}ctl.pulse { type pulse}pcm.!default { type pulse}ctl.!default { type pulse}pcm.card0 { type hw card 0}ctl.card0 { type hw card 0}pcm.dsp0 { type plug slave.pcm "hw:0,0" }
Well that’s not all the latest update of the lib32asound2-plugins Debian package is missing the pulseaudio required libraries
. Huh ?!
Anyways let’s get back to business.
To make skype work I had to create the following script:
#!/bin/shexport SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pulse;/usr/bin/linux32 /opt/Skype/skype_static-2.0.0.72/skype
in /usr/local/bin/skype
Next I had to execute:
amixer set 'Input Source' 'Internal Mic'
and
echo "amixer set 'Input Source' 'Internal Mic'" >> /etc/rc.local
And yes you need to have downloaded static version of skype 2.0.0.72 and put it in
/opt/Skype/
directory.
Well if you’re lucky. Hooray Skype might work again ? If God fix it for you 🙂
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Archive for September 24th, 2009
Problems with Skype 2.0.0.72 on Debian Unstable Again and their solutions
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Enrich your Gnome Desktop with Screenlets Dashboard
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Yesterday I’ve tried plugin which provides widgetop to your Linux desktop through plugin
for Screenelts for which I’ve said a couple of words in one of my previous posts.
It’s pretty straight forward to install.
1. Download the Dashboard plugin
2. Start screenlets
3. Choose Install and then select the previously downloaded archive file
4. Go to Screenlets Manager and activate the new plugin
Be prepared that on Debian the Dashboard would seem like it’s not gonna work,a warning will pop-up alarming about a problem with Firefox. Well seems the plugin
dislikes iceweasel which basicly is the same thing in Debian.
However there is a button in which you force the plugin to work with icedove you can click.
That would force it to run with Iceweasel as far as I have seen it works with IceWeasel just as goodas in plain Firefox.
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How nerd are you?
Thursday, September 24th, 2009I’ve accidently found a nerd test.Here are the results of the test. Go on and follow the link if you’d like to test yourself as well.
I’ve also taken the NerdTest 2.0.Here are my results of it:
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