Upgrading from 8.11.0.4 which worked to 8.13.0.2 broke skypeforlinux. I now get no audio devices. The video devices still work. I am using ALSA not pulseaudio. # emerge -pv skypeforlinux These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ~] net-im/skypeforlinux-8.13.0.2::gentoo [8.11.0.4::gentoo] USE="-pax_kernel" ABI_X86="(64)" 0 KiB
# emerge --info Portage 2.3.13 (python 3.5.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop, gcc-7.2.0, glibc-2.26-r5, 4.14.12-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.14.12-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3720QM_CPU_@_2.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1 KiB Mem: 16306380 total, 396028 free KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16777212 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 05:45:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 7593221abf949d6e093b986a2d596e9ddf1a504c sh bash 4.4_p12 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.29.1 p3) 2.29.1 ccache version 3.2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.4_p12::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.24.3::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.5.4-r1::gentoo dev-util/ccache: 3.2.4::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.9.6::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.4.1-r2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.34.11::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r4::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 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(In reply to Andrew Waters from comment #0) > Upgrading from 8.11.0.4 which worked to 8.13.0.2 broke skypeforlinux. > > I now get no audio devices. The video devices still work. I am using ALSA > not pulseaudio. Same here. Pure ALSA system, no pulseaudio. In 8.13.0.2 no audio devices detected (including USB microphone attached to video camera). Video devices still work. 8.11.0.4 works OK.
I am using pulseaudio. new version sees speaker and video but microphones do not work. I can list them but they do not work and nothing shows up on the recording tab of pulse volume control. Old version worked fine.
Skype without Pulseaudio isn't officially supported since version 4.3, so there is nothing I can do. I don't know either why microphone doesn't work for people using pulseaudio. The truth is SkypeForLinux is a crappy wrapper around SkypeForWeb and I personally don't recommend using it. You have only two possible solutions: - Use SkypeForWeb which surprisingly works as expected - Try new SkypeForLinux version: https://bugs.gentoo.org/646088
I can confirm that. I installed =net-im/skypeforlinux-8.15.0.4 after my last uvDN world update. The settings window shows me a "no device found" message, but the funny thing is that I was still able to hear the other person. So skypeforlinux must still be using ALSA. So I tested SkypeForWeb and I was surprised as how well it functioned. So thanks for the tip.
The currently released version 8.16.0.4 lists devices.
99% sure this is a problem with your system and not skypeforlinux in general. Have you had any success with the latest release of skype? Also ALSA is not supported lastly, please field this with gentoo support IRC chat, they might help you figure out any lower level video v4l/camera issues your having https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/irc-channels/
