 |
Puppy Linux Discussion Forum Puppy HOME page : puppylinux.com "THE" alternative forum : puppylinux.info
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in|
The time now is Wed 19 Sep 2018, 03:30 All times are UTC - 4 |
 Forum index » House Training » HOWTO ( Solutions ) |
|
A workable way to install skype 4.3 in puppy
Moderators: Flash, Ian, JohnMurga |
 
|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Page 3 of 18 [266 Posts] | Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., 16, 17, 18 Next |
| Author | Message | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CatDude
 Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1570 Location: UK |
Hello Watchdog This is what i get (on the machine in my sig):
CatDude . _________________  |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||
|
watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 1659 Location: Italy |
I think you should set:
in /usr/etc/pulse/default.pa as found out by OscarTalks. |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
CatDude
Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1570 Location: UK |
Hi
As i poited out in my earlier post:
I didn't need to do anthing with the 'sink' line as everything works OK CatDude . _________________ |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
DM was on fire!
 Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 165 Location: N.E. Georgia Mountains, USA |
Awesome. Tried to get into a call and noticed I had no sound. Googled "No sound Skype 4.3" and found a crapload of Linux-based results. Skype/Microsoft definitely screwed the pooch with this, first not telling us about the upgrade and now ditching Alsa support. Anyway. I digress. I tried everything in the first post and I'm still unable to hear sound. Skype doesn't seem to recognize that I'm using PulseAudio. The edits proposed by CatDude don't help either. :/ Any idea? |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
OscarTalks
 Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 1804 Location: London, England |
Confirmed working in Slacko 5.7 I took the dynamic version of Skype 4.3.0.37 from the website and repacked it along with 01micko's Qt libraries (including the plugins for avatar support) as before. My pulseaudio-2.0-test.pet reduces the size of pulseaudio-2.0.w53orig.pet from 5977 K down to 1059 K and still works for me, so quite a significant reduction! Both of these are uploaded to http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks for now. Strictly for testing of course, always take the usual precautions. A reminder that you do need to make sure that the spot directory is owned by spot (not root). Open a terminal and do:-
Then you can run Skype as spot with the commands as already described. It may be OK to run everything as root. One thing I am not sure about yet though is if we were to have the pulseaudio daemon launching at startup and running all the time I wonder if this would cause a problem for other applications needing access to alsa for sound input/output? @ DM on fire I find that some of the steps in the first post are not necessary. Later posts are now describing a simpler method. What Puppy are you running? Are you able to get pulseaudio --start to work in terminal or do you get an error? What soundcards/hardware are you using? Can you start Skype? What do you see in the sound settings section of the options GUI? _________________ Oscar in England  |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
DM was on fire!
Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 165 Location: N.E. Georgia Mountains, USA |
Yeah, pulseaudio --start runs without a gripe; and Skype has been running even since I did an install of the .deb right from the Skype page the day they forced us to upgrade. Sound settings only shows "default device," and does not show PulseAudio. Can't get my hardware info at this time, I'll post again when I can; but PRETTY sure it's Intel ICH7. Also an issue with this .pet, I can't see any user avatars... worked fine on the .deb. |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 1659 Location: Italy |
@DM was on fire You have not said what puppy you are using. Now I'm testing in slacko 5.7 the new packages provided by OscarTalks. It works. No need to change ownership of spot dir. I had only to change /usr/etc/pulse/defalut.pa with my original settings. I can't start pulseaudio as root. "DM was on fire": read the clue post http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=789631#789631 and all the thread. Try in a live or in a new install. The settings in /usr/etc/pulse/default.pa are hardware-dependent. First try to launch without changes. If pulseaudio does not start then in a console exec:
and take note of mic subdevice you are using. Say it is x. Then change in default.pa the two lines:
I assume you are using sound card 0. In my netbook worked:
(mic subdevice was 0). Hope this helps. |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
DM was on fire!
Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 165 Location: N.E. Georgia Mountains, USA |
Whoops, my apologies. Precise 5.5. I'll give this a shot when I'm back home and report back with results. Going to probably be back because I have a TurtleBeach headset which acts as it's own sound device. 
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
CatDude
Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1570 Location: UK |
Hi
No problem here running it as root in fresh frugal of Slacko-5.7 I used retrovol with the aid of Psip to set up the mixer levels then i load up a custom .sfs file which consists of the two .pets posted here
skype-4.3.0.37-w5orig.pet The only changes i made were to NOT include the 'root' directory from the pulseaudio-2.0.w53.orig.pet and edited line 45 of /usr/etc/pulse/default.pa to look like this:
Then i ran the commands as shown in the attached image, the second 'pulseaudio --kill' command was just to check it had been killed. During previous tests i noticed that sometimes it appeared as though Skype automatically killed it and other times it didn't, and required the 'pulseaudio --kill' command. Best to just run that command anyway i suppose. CatDude P.S I have also got this skype-4.3.0.37 working in Fatdog64-611, though i am having a difficult time trying to get it working in the latest 700 version. .
_________________ |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
peebee
 Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 3464 Location: Worcestershire, UK |
Hi OscarTalks Working well here - both cam and mic with your provided default.pa - many thanks. I've put the 2 pulseaudio lines into /usr/bin/skype - running as root - no need for "su spot". Cheers peebee _________________  LxPup = Puppy + LXDE |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
DM was on fire!
Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 165 Location: N.E. Georgia Mountains, USA |
Proposed changes didn't work. 
Here is my hardware. I've been working fine on default soundcard (0). The headset is something I'll work on later, but I just want to get the basic sound working for now. 
By the way, those of you seeking a method to log into Skype with 4.2, don't bother. Support for it is dead and gone. |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
vicmz
 Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268 |
I couldn't test audio/video yet but the SFS for Slacko seems to work in OB-Precise 14.07.26, I only had to install libpng. I didn't install pulse-audio, I wonder if the screenshot attached below means I already have it built in.
_________________ Puppy Linux en español |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
DM was on fire!
Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 165 Location: N.E. Georgia Mountains, USA |
That's how it sounds to me. |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
saintless
 Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Posts: 3882 Location: Bulgaria |
Thanks for advice. I'm happy to use Skype 2.1, 2.2, 4.0.0.8 and 4.2 with dead support: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=792829#792829 http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=792895#792895 _________________ Farewell, Nooby, you will be missed... |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 1659 Location: Italy |
Confirmed. As root pulseaudio gives a warning but it starts and skype works. Tried my original pets in wary and the new OscarTalks' pets in slacko. I don't remember why I decided to run pulseaudio as spot user: I have experienced several pulseaudio's start fails in my attempts. |
|||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| Page 3 of 18 [266 Posts] | Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., 16, 17, 18 Next |
|
|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
|
Forum index » House Training » HOWTO ( Solutions ) |
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum |
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group