From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A78013877A for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 02:32:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2778DE0A9C; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 02:32:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FD31E0A8E for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 02:32:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4403533FD8C for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 02:32:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.329 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.329 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.861, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 41xGmS5QKara for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 02:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 45A3933FD58 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 02:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wyu3g-00039a-5I for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 04:32:36 +0200 Received: from athedsl-343716.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.198.66]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 04:32:36 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-343716.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 04:32:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Skype now will only work with pulseaudio? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 05:32:24 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <201406221753.42148.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-343716.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: <201406221753.42148.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b647765a-0b2a-4646-ae2b-a67e0f6b632e X-Archives-Hash: ddc93f41d382c594b0ab1a4faba4280c On 22/06/14 19:53, Mick wrote: > I was surprised to find that skype now has the pulseaudio flag set as a > default. Well, that didn't really surprise me, but what did is that after I > unset the pulseaudio flag and emerged skype-4.3.0.37, audio in skype no longer > works. :-/ > > The skype website says that alsa is no longer supported without pulseaudio in > their freshly cut Microsoft-owned code. Why is then the pulseaudio flag > provided in portage, if without audio skype would lose its core functionality > - i.e. making voice calls? I guess someone may only use it for IM chat, but > that I would think is an edge use case. Most people I know would use it for > voice and perhaps video calls. For chat. Skype is the continuation of MSN/Messenger, so many people use it for chat too. > In any case, should I install pulseaudio? So far I had not missed it in my > world to manage my audio needs. Looking at the wiki page: > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PulseAudio > > it seems awfully complicated to me, for something which for my purposes would > be just a new 'alsamixer'. :p If *that* looks complicated to you, then I do have to ask: why on earth are you using Gentoo? That guide is extremely easy to follow by any average Gentooer.