This is a short howto for skype on recent fedora distributions which use
the pulseaudio system. I had no sound in skype and am going on a trip
so I needed to resolve that problem. I saw lots of others with the
problem on the web with mixed results so I'll post the resolution to my
problem here where its searchable :)
problem: no sound in skype. Pressing the test sound button produced no
output. sound on the box is working perfectly.
I connected strace to it (strace -f -e trace-open -p 1234) and pressed
the test sound button. It failed to open some pulseaudio libs in
/usr/lib/pulse... (I forget exactly which ones... sorry). The problem
is that while I have a working sound system for most apps Skype is a 32
bit app and needs 32 bit pulse support. So I installed:
yum install pulseaudio.i386 pulseaudio-core-libs.i386
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386
Then I set the sound device to "pulse" in skype, pressed the test button
and it made noise!
Hopefully this will help others...
wcn
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