Hi @all,

at first i want to thank the skype developers (@andypoo for instance, and of course all the other ones...) for their magnificent application. And the did a very good job, as far as i am concerned.
In my case i am also currently only use the chat functionality of skype. Because i am part of that 91 thousand (unbelievable...) Ubuntu users. But i bugs me alot since a few weeks because i really like the video and voice chat ability. At work i use it all the time for business.
The main point is: Too many people will use PulseAudio
A couple of years ago alsa was the only viable option for sound. I agree with that. But most audio players i use dont use dmix in alsa, so hearing music while a skype call comes in, never worked for me.
But at the moment we are having a paradigm shift in the use of sound server. As one the preposts here pointed out: All the latest Ubuntu LTS PLUS Fedora PLUS Mandriva distributions are going to work with PulseAudio now, and in the near future. That is a fact.
So i suppose you will get a lot of grumpy/dissapointed linux users over this. Because for chat i can also have Jabber/GTalk or so. One of the unique things in Skype was the audio conferencing, and i completly fell in love with video conferencing. And these ultimatly cool features will not work in the latest release of the distro of my choice?
When i first heard this, i thought it was a bad joke...

But i am confident that you will fix this error, hopefully soon. Because i really want to have my multi-channel communication back in linux.

Yours faithfully, Mark

Hi everybody,

This is my first post.

Few months ago I bought MacBook Pro and installed Ubuntu (i no more use WinXP or Vista or the likes from MS). I have been struggling to get skype working on it, especially after the arrival of PulseAudio. But i found this - a chance stumbling

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/p...dio/+bug/198453

especially the suggestion from one Mr. Roberto Cássio Jr.

$ asoundconf set-pulseaudio

Seems to make the trick. I now no more have to use the OSS Skype (with poor audio quality). Though I am not sure at this time, if I have to enter this command everytime I have to login to my Ubuntu Box.

Hope the same works for you guys. God Luck!

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Pravin

Any estimate when/if pulseaudio support will be available in Skype?

Or, any news on other ways of getting Skype to work out of the box on Ubuntu/Fedora Linux (i.e. with pulse active)? I booted jaunty live cd from feb 3rd today and installed the Skype .deb but I ran into several issues:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/p...dio/+bug/325290

Would be very nice with an update on where things stand now.