[wheezy] pulseaudio is needed by the latest skype, but it doesn't work

[jls]

 

[Jason W]

The latest skype does not work with pulseaudio?  I don't use skype so I can't test, more information on what is not working would be helpful.  Thanks.

[jls]

pulseaudio makes the sound card silent

[Jason W]

Try this command to launch skype:

PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 skype



Also maybe try:

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From http://pc-freak.net : In file/etc/pulse/default.pa substitute the line :

load-module module-udev-detect

with

load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0

Then restart Pulseaudio server.


Taken from the Debian Skype page.

[Juanito]

You could also try killing the pulseaudio daemon and re-starting it in debug mode to look for error messages:

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$ pulseaudio -k
$ pulseaudio -vv

[jls]

after starting console-kit-daemon as root, pulseaudio starts, but oNLy with dummy output.

[jls]

I've attached the pulseaudio.log

[Jason W]

Does this issue occur when running a Debian install of wheezy?  Testing on a wheezy install would help in knowing if it is a Debian issue or a dCore issue.

[jls]

On the same machine (eepc 901) I've also elive installed, where pulse works, I attach also the pulse log of elive.
But few days ago I managed to get pulse working on dCore but I couldn't reproduce the success, maybe some libs are missing?

PS. pulse makes sound working also on terminology

[Jason W]

Ok, I will look into it.

[Jason W]

I can load pulseaudio and start it with no errors after starting console-kit-daemon.

Alsamixer shows up one channel of pulseaudio, and speaker-test seems to give normal terminal output, just no sound.  Pavucontrol also gives normal readings.  I will dig deeper.

[Jason W]

I booted into my Ubuntu Trusty hard drive install, and could not even get pulseaudio to start (apt-get install pulseaudio; pulseaudio --start).  It complained of missing config files, I even followed their wiki and no luck.  That tells me that on Debian/Ubuntu it is not easy to get pulseaudio running.  I will try some more in the near future as time permits.

[jls]

isn't pulseaudio enabled by default in ubuntu?

[jls]

the solution is of course thanks to arslanserc 
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11632.msg61791.html#msg61791

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sudo udevadm trigger

[jls]

this is because pulse audio package has got files in

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lib/udev/rules.ddirectory.
this situation could be automatically checked and solved by the importsce script adding on top the sce.installed file the

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udevadm trigger
line