Following my sound issues with Skype on Ubuntu, I did a bit more research and eventually found an excellent how-to article on PulseAudio in the Ubuntu forums. Appendix C explains how to get Skype to work properly and indeed it is a doodle and means there is no need to kill PulseAudio when using Skype! I've tested it in Intrepid and Jaunty and it works a treat. To quote the article, here's how to do it:
Open Skype's Options, then go to Sound Devices. You need to set "Sound Out" and "Ringing" to the "pulse" device, and set "Sound In" to the hardware definition of your microphone. For example, my laptop's microphone is defined as "plughw:I82801DBICH4,0".
You will have to experiment with the different options for "Sound In" until you find the correct one: choose an option, click on "Make a test call" until you find the option that works. On my machine, here's what the option window looks like:
Skype Options, Sound Devices Tab
6 comments:
This was extremely helpful thanks a bunch
It worked!!
Thank you very much.
GREAT!.. online again!!!
This worked indeed. Thanks!
I have Jaunty but I can't get pulse to work. The Microphone setting only allows pulse as an option? I'm also trying this with Skype 2.1.
ANy ideas out there...
@dmpeters63: if the microphone setting only shows pulse as an option, it probably means that Jaunty hasn't detected your hardware. Have you tried recording yourself using the sound recorder tool? You'll find it in Applications -> Sound & Video -> Sound Recorder. If the sound recorder doesn't work, ask on the forums if anybody can help. Another great resource is the wiki page on debugging sound problems.
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