Re: skype (Was: Re: flash and firefox)

From: Panagiotis Astithas <past_at_ebs.gr>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:08:26 +0200
Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Panagiotis Astithas <past_at_ebs.gr> wrote:
>> get any audible alerts when I have incoming calls or chat messages. 
>> The device is correctly defined (/dev/dsp), the sound files are 
>> installed in /usr/X11R6/share/skype/sound, yet they don't seem to get 
>> played. The voice calls work great though.
> 
> Do you have "vchan"s enabled? If not: add some and try again. Is skype able
> to find the sounds? Did you browsed the skype forum for this problem?

I have four vchans enabled and yes I did search around the skype forums 
some time ago. I just observed that it plays the sounds when I start it 
manually (from a terminal or the gnome menu), but not when it is being 
started from the gnome session manager upon login.

Thanks,

Panagiotis
Received on Tue Mar 14 2006 - 11:08:45 UTC

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