Having used skype successfully in the past with previous CentOS versions, I haven't yet been able to get it working fully with CentOS 5.3 - the playback sound works OK but I can't get the mic working. I previously used the skype version installed with yum from the skype repo but thought maybe this was faulty, so have just installed the static version (cd skype_static-2.1.0.81). However, the mic still doesn't work and I've notice the following (repeated) error messages on the command line (currently this version has to be executed from the command line): snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 203032 bytes (1057 ms). Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 201176 bytes (1047 ms). Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 199280 bytes (1037 ms). Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. ..........etc Does anybody have any information about this issue/bug and any idea how to solve the problem? Thanks, Andy
Andrew wrote:> Having used skype successfully in the past with previous CentOS > versions, I haven't yet been able to get it working fully with CentOS > 5.3 - the playback sound works OK but I can't get the mic working. I > previously used the skype version installed with yum from the skype repo > but thought maybe this was faulty, so have just installed the static > version (cd skype_static-2.1.0.81). However, the mic still doesn't work > and I've notice the following (repeated) error messages on the command > line (currently this version has to be executed from the command line): > > snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: > 203032 bytes (1057 ms). > Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver. Please report this issue > to the ALSA developers. > snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: > 201176 bytes (1047 ms). > Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver. Please report this issue > to the ALSA developers. > snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: > 199280 bytes (1037 ms). > Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver. Please report this issue > to the ALSA developers. > > ..........etc > > Does anybody have any information about this issue/bug and any idea how > to solve the problem? > Thanks, > Andy >What version of ALSA driver are you using? Have you tried updating ALSA as the version within CentOS is quite old now (1.0.14rc3). Elrepo has an updated ALSA driver package here: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-alsa
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On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 09:54 -0500, Brent L. Bates wrote:> Why are you trying to use 5.3? Why not 5.4? After installing 5.4, try > everything again, even the newer kernel module. I've been reading these lists > long enough to remember people saying they have had the same problem as you > with earlier versions of the OS. I do not remember the details, but the > solution has something to do with software settings. You might want to do a > Google search for `skype' and `mic'. The answer may even be in the CentOS > archives. I think I saw it on this list. It may have been the Scientific > Linux list instead. I subscribe to and read both lists, so the solution may > have been on the SL list instead of CentOS. I hope this helps some. Good > luck. >Hi Brent, Thanks for taking the trouble to reply to me personally. I'm using CentOS 5.3 on my PC simply because that's the latest version which I had downloaded and burnt to CDs! I'm afraid I'm a bit slow in keeping up with the fast-moving development of CentOS and am always a bit reluctant to rebuild/reinstall the operating system on my PC. However, I thought that 5.3 was sufficiently up-to-date for my purposes, but was disappointed when I found that neither the wifi on my laptop nor skype on my PC worked properly! I'm now using Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop which seems to work brilliantly and is very user-friendly. I'm thinking of using Ubuntu (server edition?) on my PC, after years of using RedHat and CentOS, because as a 'semi-tech' user (and great supporter of linux) I do like the user-friendliness of Ubuntu! Best regards, Andy