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From: Luigi Pinna <mailing-gentoo@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Skype doesn't work as user
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:26:01
Message-Id: 200511201805.04970.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Skype doesn't work as user by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Alle 11:37, domenica 20 novembre 2005, Duncan ha scritto:
2 > What desktop are you running, KDE? If so, are you using the ARTS
3 > sound daemon or not? Anything else (KDE's sound effects??) accessing
4 > sound at the same time? What are the ownership and permissions on
5 > your sound device (/dev/sound/dsp and/or /dev/snd/pcm)?
6
7 Yes KDE 3.4.3 with arts, and it works good (I can use juk, kopete
8 without problems)
9
10 > As a user, Skype seems to be configured to try playing thru ARTS
11 > first. When that fails, it tries playing direct to the sound device.
12 > The thing is that if ARTS or a similar sound daemon (ESD?) is
13 > running, it'll grab exclusive use of the sound device, and nothing
14 > else will be able to use it, even if it would be capable of sharing
15 > it otherwise. That's why it tries thru ARTS -- if it's running it
16 > can't access the hardware directly anyway.
17
18 Ok, but why root can access to the device too? It must be kill user's
19 arts, isn't it?
20 The problem is that I don't know how to configure it, and I don't want
21 to use a root access to use Skype...
22 Luigi
23
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