Re: skype popup message

ubuntu-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Alain Muls wrote:
Hi

I use a philips voip0801 phone as a sound device for skype calls. It is very handy, but I can not hear the phone ringing when someone wants to call me. I enabled the popup notification in skype for incoming calls, but honestly, I do not see the message. So I tried to use the following script only for the incoming calls:

xmessage -center -font -adobe-times-bold-r-*-*-25-*-*-*-*-* INCOMING SKYPE CALL

When my colleague phoned, he got a message I was having problems with my sound card. Calling him form my phone was no problem at all, so the sound card should not be th eproblem. Is perhaps the script hanging the skype application? Or does someone have a better suggestion for getting a real visible message when I have an incoming call.

Tx/Alain

Nop ... It's not it. Are you listening to music or doing something else while being called?

The main issue here is between Skype and Ubuntu 8.04. To make the story short: Hardy implements PulseAudio, Skype does not want to implement PulseAudio and, therefore, it tries to use ALSA. ALSA tries to take over the sound card (because through alsa you, usually, output only 1 sound at a time, no multiple sources permitted, like in PulseAudio or dmixer), but, because it is used by something else already, it will fail and report "Problem with audio playback/capture" to the other person.

As for the popup, I think it should appear after a restart or so... don't know why, but it happened to me too and then, out of a sudden, it was on... (strange Skype)

Solution:
There is a guide somewhere on how to implement multiple sounds even for Skype, but I wasn't able to follow it: http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup(don't know why, but the link doesn't work for me... )
Also, a more brute force approach: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=790889
In the end, Google is your friend ... http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=howto+skype+pulseaudio&btnG=Google+Search

Have phun,
Catalin


Hi

I found a solution.
In skype you can direct the sound to:

Sound In: sent to my philips phone
Sound Out: idem
Ringing: sent to default device which is the PC speakers

Tx/Alain

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