Open Sound System

Hi there,

today in Gentoo update list I found an update of Skype from 2.0.0.72 to 2.1.0.47. It had been installed without problems. It started and processed the login. There's no error message, but there's also no chance to get an audio device working. I can choose: default device. When I try to call anybody I get the error message: problem with audio device.

An OSS-version doesn't exist. Any ideas?

There are the various ALSA-emulation methods**, but skype is quite demanding so I doubt these will work. Easiest solution is to use 2.0.0.72 for now - 2.0.0.72 has an OSS version (which you probably used).

Hopefully skype will make an OSS version once 2.1 leaves beta (it's labeled as beta on their website)... You may want to ask them on their Linux forum.

** e.g. The pcm-oss ALSA plugin. Or the cuckoo module. Or even Pulseaudio's ALSA plugin if Pulse is set up to work with OSS.

Hi!
could you please help me with sound in my skype (2.0.0.72)? there's no sound at all.
i have Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop, no alsa, no pulse, just OSS4 (osstest has fine results).
i installed skype-static-oss but it made no effect.
i couldn't change anything in skype settings because on sound devices tab i may choose between default device, hdmi, rawbluetooth and bluetooth. running a test call gives a message "problem with audio playback"
also in ossxmix settings i changed only int speaker mode for input because i've got external loudspeakers.

sslothzz wrote:Hi!
could you please help me with sound in my skype (2.0.0.72)? there's no sound at all.
i have Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop, no alsa, no pulse, just OSS4 (osstest has fine results).
i installed skype-static-oss but it made no effect.
i couldn't change anything in skype settings because on sound devices tab i may choose between default device, hdmi, rawbluetooth and bluetooth. running a test call gives a message "problem with audio playback"
also in ossxmix settings i changed only int speaker mode for input because i've got external loudspeakers.

1. Does it work with int speaker?

2. Does it work with external loudspeakers?

And the output of ossmix ...

EDIT: The "default device" is /dev/dsp, that is, your virtual mixer, that is, ossmix (CLI), or ossxmix (GUI).
Perhaps, it has nothing to do with Skype, it is how you configured ossxmix.

Does recording in general work? Try "ossrecord - | ossplay -" and test if there's an echo..

Hi guys,

Sorry if this is off-top, but oss version of skype is no longer available from their webpage. Does anyone have the old 2.0 oss binaries or knows where to download them?

Thanks,
Levon

lyovushka wrote:Hi guys,

Sorry if this is off-top, but oss version of skype is no longer available from their webpage. Does anyone have the old 2.0 oss binaries or knows where to download them?

Thanks,
Levon

Let us hope that Cesium will deliver the proper link (as usual).

It might be beyond the "off-top", but the simplest solution to all problems is Arch Linux
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide

igorzwx wrote:Let us hope that Cesium will deliver the proper link (as usual).

It might be beyond the "off-top", but the simplest solution to all problems is Arch Linux
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide

Unfortunately I didn't found a solution to my problem

lyovushka wrote:

igorzwx wrote:Let us hope that Cesium will deliver the proper link (as usual).

It might be beyond the "off-top", but the simplest solution to all problems is Arch Linux
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide

Unfortunately I didn't found a solution to my problem

The old link (provided by Cesium) does not work anymore.
QUOTE:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3360#p13495
This link
http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_s ... ss.tar.bz2
will let you download the 2.0.0.72 static OSS version.
End of QUOTE

On Arch Linux, both OSS4 and skype-oss can be installed from the official repositories with a simple command like this:

# pacman -S oss

And you do not need to remove PulseAudio (and fix Gnome).

igorzwx wrote:The old link (provided by Cesium) does not work anymore.
QUOTE:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3360#p13495
This link
http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_s ... ss.tar.bz2
will let you download the 2.0.0.72 static OSS version.
End of QUOTE

On Arch Linux, both OSS4 and skype-oss can be installed from the official repositories with a simple command like this:

# pacman -S oss

And you do not need to remove PulseAudio (and fix Gnome).

Hm, I looked in
http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/communi ... k/PKGBUILD
Although I'm not an expert in Arch Linux package management, but it seams that it downloads skype from official site, which as you mentioned does not work any more. Are you sure this works now?

lyovushka wrote:

igorzwx wrote:The old link (provided by Cesium) does not work anymore.
QUOTE:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3360#p13495
This link
http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_s ... ss.tar.bz2
will let you download the 2.0.0.72 static OSS version.
End of QUOTE

On Arch Linux, both OSS4 and skype-oss can be installed from the official repositories with a simple command like this:

# pacman -S oss

And you do not need to remove PulseAudio (and fix Gnome).

Hm, I looked in
http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/communi ... k/PKGBUILD
Although I'm not an expert in Arch Linux package management, but it seams that it downloads skype from official site, which as you mentioned does not work any more. Are you sure this works now?

This is a listing from my terminal (Arch Linux):

$ yaourt skype-oss
1 community/skype-oss 2.0.0.72-2 [installed]
P2P software for high-quality voice communication (OSS-compatible version)
2 aur/bin32-skype-oss 2.0.0.72-3 (Out of Date) (47)
P2P software for high-quality voice communication (OSS-compatible version)
==> Enter n° (separated by blanks, or a range) of packages to be installed
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>

-----------------------------------------------------

I have it installed.
see also:
How to upgrade packages or install them from AUR
http://www.go2linux.org/how-to-install-and-use-yaourt

EDIT: You may need to install "sudo" (if you want to use Yaourt comfortable).

I've uploaded a 2.0.0.72 tarball: link.

cesium wrote:I've uploaded a 2.0.0.72 tarball: link.

Cesium! Thank you very much!
I will post this link to Russian Ubuntu forum.

igorzwx wrote:This is a listing from my terminal (Arch Linux):

$ yaourt skype-oss
1 community/skype-oss 2.0.0.72-2 [installed]
P2P software for high-quality voice communication (OSS-compatible version)
2 aur/bin32-skype-oss 2.0.0.72-3 (Out of Date) (47)
P2P software for high-quality voice communication (OSS-compatible version)
==> Enter n° (separated by blanks, or a range) of packages to be installed
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>

-----------------------------------------------------

I have it installed.
see also:
How to upgrade packages or install them from AUR
http://www.go2linux.org/how-to-install-and-use-yaourt

EDIT: You may need to install "sudo" (if you want to use Yaourt comfortable).

The first line of your output suggests that you already have skype-oss installed. I suppose you installed that when it was available. The problem is what to do now when it is not available.

lyovushka wrote:

igorzwx wrote:This is a listing from my terminal (Arch Linux):

$ yaourt skype-oss
1 community/skype-oss 2.0.0.72-2 [installed]
P2P software for high-quality voice communication (OSS-compatible version)
2 aur/bin32-skype-oss 2.0.0.72-3 (Out of Date) (47)
P2P software for high-quality voice communication (OSS-compatible version)
==> Enter n° (separated by blanks, or a range) of packages to be installed
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>

-----------------------------------------------------

I have it installed.
see also:
How to upgrade packages or install them from AUR
http://www.go2linux.org/how-to-install-and-use-yaourt

EDIT: You may need to install "sudo" (if you want to use Yaourt comfortable).

The first line of your output suggests that you already have skype-oss installed. I suppose you installed that when it was available. The problem is what to do now when it is not available.

You are absolutely right!

Cesium have already uploaded the package you need.