just in case: try this howto on setting skype and pulseaudio -
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Errata#Skype_with_PulseAudio

maybe it works. it says that you need to do some other tweaks to make it
work with pulseaudio. remember to have alsa-plugins also installed.

2007/10/2, Rodolphe Rocca <fake2@free.fr>:
>
> Sebastian Redl wrote:
> > Rodolphe Rocca wrote:
> >> The emul-linux-x86-soundlibs package (version 10.0-r1) comes with
> >> basic alsa libraries.
> >> However, some 32 bits applications using alsa may need 32 bits alsa
> >> plugins.
> >> This is especially true in my case where :
> >> - I _need_  to use 32 bits skype (corporate decision I cannot discuss
> >> although I would have much to say about)
> > Which plugin does skype need, exactly? It works fine for me on a 64-bit
> > system, and skype is a 32-bit-binary-only package.
> >
>
> Precision : 32 bits skype works for me with emul-* packages too. But it
> does not work with pulseaudio because then my 32 bits gentoo lacks the
> pulse alsa plugin.
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