On Tuesday 12 January 2016 21:54:36 Curt Howland wrote:
I wish I knew. Mines broken too, and Pulse is installed by default in Debian.
I think it's a conspiracy, the Pulse/systemd author is being paid by Microsoft to destroy the Linux user experience.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Kate Draven borglabs4@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to get skype sound to work but apparently the monkeys at MS removed alsa support and replaced it with pulse, which is rubbish. Even though I have pulse enable (pclos - ali's remaster), it still doesn't show up. Is there a fix to re-enable alsa or the like?
Kate
We meet again. :)
I think we are all in that leaky boat Kate, running wheezy here. I have "alsactl restore" commands in at least 2 places where it should be exec'd when I reboot, but it still doesn't work at all, NO sound until X has started, and I have logged in and opened a terminal and typed it in as the logged in user. You must have configured it to work, and did an "alsactl save" (or store? IDK) as that user first of course so it has fixed settings to restore to.
I believe the correct terminology for the reboot default of muted sound is what the British would call "a right PITA"? If prodded, I could come up with far more descriptive terms that are NSFW for sure.
So I would call up the alsomixergui, and see if you can make skype work, and when you have, quite the gui and do the save/store. See the alsactl man page for that correct syntax.
And good luck!
Cheers, Gene Heskett