[REGRESSION] skype audio input/output broken in intrepid (worked in hardy)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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alsa-plugins (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Skype was working perfectly for me in hardy but when I upgraded to intrepid pre-release it stopped working. I was previously using "default device" in the sound settings of Skype (for both input and output). In intrepid I cannot get it to work regardless or what sound options I try. FWIW, I'm running an integrated intel HDA card with a Realtek ALC268 codec. Thpugh, when I run alsamixer the listed chipset is pulse of course (I'm using the default config for everything, no hacks).
I have the exact same version of Skype (latest) and the Skype version didn't change when I upgraded (obviously). Therefore I believe that somebody changed something in the underlying sound infrastructure and while possibly fixing some other bug they also accidently screwed up Skype functionality.
I looked at "info sharedlibrary" using gdb and these are the ones that I think are the sound related modules inside Skype. It looks likely to me that this problem was a result of a change inside either Pulse Audio or inside ALSA.
0xb7e92530 0xb7f24068 Yes /usr/lib/
0xb6dca8b0 0xb6dda388 Yes /usr/lib/
0xb6bcc9a0 0xb6bcd698 Yes /usr/lib/
0xb67dabd0 0xb68019c8 Yes /usr/lib/
0xb6709670 0xb670bbc8 Yes /usr/lib/
0xb5ab3c60 0xb5af0638 Yes /usr/lib/
0xb6878990 0xb6879f24 Yes /lib/libcap.so.1
0xb6702ad0 0xb6705288 Yes /usr/lib/
0xb5d16c30 0xb5d18d48 Yes /usr/lib/
Not being able to use Skype is a _big deal_ for many I suspect, and I really hope this can be fixed somehow despite Skype not being FLOSS.
Please let me know if there is any additional information I can provide to clarify this problem.
Changed in pulseaudio: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
I should add that playing sound in totem or audacious works perfectly. Recording in "GNOME Sound Recorder" doesn't work but I'm not sure whether that ever worked (I probably did though?). In gnome-sound- recorder I get this huge CPU spike when I start to record and when I press stop the CPU just keeps spinning on 100% CPU for around 30 seconds before the STOP button even paints itself back as "unpressed" again. The recorded sound is longer than the recording and completely silent. I got "Capture" as the only selectable device in "Record from input" in the sound recorder UI.