Hi, I've spent the best part of a sunny afternoon trying to get Skype to work on my CentOS 5 desktop. My soundcard seems configured OK. I can play sounds and hear them OK in my headset: $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*.wav I can record speech from my microphone OK: $ arecord > ~/test.wav ... although I have to say that sound quality seems rather poor. It's quite fuzzy. Other detail: curiously when I speak into the microphone I don't hear my own voice in the headset. I've installed the CentOS RPM from skype.com, but no matter what I do, I can't seem to have outgoing sound. Whenever I do a test call (echo123), there's no message left. I've been jumping through burning loops giving all the options and their possible permutations a shot, to no avail. Though curiously that thing worked on a Linux Mint 5 install. But then, I won't change distro because of one small detail. Any suggestions? Niki
Niki Kovacs wrote:> Though curiously that thing worked on a Linux Mint 5 install. But then, > I won't change distro because of one small detail. > Any suggestions?having just got off a 40 min long skype call with some guys on the other side of the pond, one bit of feedback I can give you is that skype ( from their rpm ) on centos-5 does work ! -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:> I've spent the best part of a sunny afternoon trying to get Skype to work on > my CentOS 5 desktop.<snip>> I've installed the CentOS RPM from skype.com, but no matter what I do, I > can't seem to have outgoing sound. Whenever I do a test call (echo123), > there's no message left. I've been jumping through burning loops giving all > the options and their possible permutations a shot, to no avail. > > Though curiously that thing worked on a Linux Mint 5 install. But then, I > won't change distro because of one small detail. > > Any suggestions?Niki: Welcome to the club! This is something I have tried to get working, on my CentOS 5 (32 bit) desktop. William was very kind and he volunteered to help, but I have other projects, with higher priorities, ahead of this one now. Great to know that one of the previous responders has it working AOK. My Sound Card is a Generic, which uses the snd-cs46xx driver. It's a Cirrus Logic and Skype works perfectly on M$ Windows, which is the main reason why this is still a dual boot box. Like yours, my calls to the Skype test robot are all one way. I can hear her, but she can't hear me. GL! Lanny