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Bug 152174 - Skype sound system error after making call
Summary: Skype sound system error after making call
Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Net-im project
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Reported: 2006-10-20 16:08 UTC by Smiffy
Modified: 2007-06-26 02:02 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Smiffy 2006-10-20 16:08:55 UTC
How to create problem:

Make call from Skype.  Make another call from Skype, returns with "Problem with Sound Device".  Sometimes one can make two or more calls before this problem manifests itself.

Originally, this problem was seen when working under KDE, both with and without arts.  Have now dumped KDE in favour of Fluxbox and problem persists.

The only way to guarantee that Skype will work correctly is to close it completely and restart after every call.

Sound device in question is a Logitech USB headset.

Problem was not observed with same hardware configuration when running under SuSE Linux 9.1 (with KDE).  Have now "blown away" all of the yucky SuSE stuff in favour of Gentoo, so am unable to perform any comparison tests.

Forum thread refers: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-485171.html

Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm)
Last Sync: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:00:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/mail/dspam /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/run/dspam /var/spool/fax/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS=""
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli cracklib crypt ctype cups dba dif dlloader dri dts dvd dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode exif expat fam fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc samba sdl session simplexml slang soap sockets spell spl ssl symlink tcltk tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_i810 video_cards_imstt video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nsc video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo vorbis xml xml2 xmms xorg xsl xv zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 1 Jeffrey Graham 2007-01-24 14:38:10 UTC
I confirm this error. Different hardware. 2.6.20-rc5 kernel. skype 1.3.0.53-r1.
Motherboard intel-hda sound.  The first call goes fine. After the first call
I can hear but the mic stops works (muted?). All other sound apps work
properly (after I kill skype).

Tried with and without esd under gnome. Tried with kde and icewm. Tried with
and without kernel oss emulation.
Comment 2 Flavio 2007-02-06 22:19:06 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> I confirm this error. Different hardware. 2.6.20-rc5 kernel. skype 1.3.0.53-r1.
> Motherboard intel-hda sound.  The first call goes fine. After the first call
> I can hear but the mic stops works (muted?). All other sound apps work
> properly (after I kill skype).
> 
> Tried with and without esd under gnome. Tried with kde and icewm. Tried with
> and without kernel oss emulation.
> 

Hello, I have a lot of trouble with sound in my Gentoo. The same described above.
I think we'll never be able to get sound working properly.
On my amd64 I have the same problem (emu10k chipset sound card). I have to close skype, restart alsasound (/etc/init.d/alsasound restart), restart kmix, and finally start again skype. Then, it works.

As regard my notebook, which has a snd_hda_intel chipset, I can't get it working. Sound is quite distorced. Let's have a look here: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=73654&hl=

I'm giving up... That's no way  :(''''''
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-18 07:16:37 UTC
Well...

1/ Do NOT use arts; ever...
2/ Try with skype-1.4.0.74-r1
3/ OSS emulation is not useful now, skype uses ALSA. 
4/ If you have troubles w/ in-kernel drivers, then try media-sound/alsa-driver instead.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
Comment 4 Smiffy 2007-06-26 02:02:48 UTC
I didn't realise this bug was still open.  The machines on which I had trouble are no longer being used for this application, but I can report that I have no problems with Skype 1.3.0.53-r1 (which has been masked since I installed it) on AMD64.

I should point out that I use neither ESD nor ARTS (won't have 'em on my machine) and run everything as pure ALSA.

As far as I'm concerned, it is no longer an issue but I cannot speak for others.