Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alexander Puchmayr <alexander.puchmayr@×××××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Skype && pulseaudio [SOLVED]
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:05:43
Message-Id: 201002231603.46135.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Skype && pulseaudio by Mike Mazur
1 Am Dienstag 23 Februar 2010 13:48:29 schrieb Mike Mazur:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 >
5 > Usually the pavucontrol app does this. When a call starts, open
6 > pavucontrol (or Applications -> Sound & Video -> PulseAudio Volume
7 > Control), find your Skype call in the Streams list, right-click and
8 > pick the device you want that call to use.
9 >
10 Aaaahh! The trick is to start a call (echo123 for example), then use
11 pavucontrol. Then you see the skype-specific streams which you can re-assign.
12
13 > As the note at the bottom of the Streams tab says, this appears to
14 > only modify the output device, not the input device. That would
15 > explain why Skype stubbornly continued to use only the built-in mic in
16 > my case.
17 >
18 > Hope that helps,
19
20 Yes, that solved the problem :-) Thanks a lot!
21
22 Alex