9.10 and Pulseaudio...

[Ryan Steele]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca> wrote:
>
>   I recently did a fresh install of 9.10 on a new machine, different
> than doing an upgrade.  With upgrades my ALSA audio setup was retained,
> but now pulseaudio is the default.
>
>   Didn't notice it until I tried to run Skype and noticed that I
> couldn't set my "Microphone" and "Speakers" to go to my USB headset, but
> Rinding go to my speakers.   All it offers me now is "PulseAudio server
> (local)", with no other options.
>
>   If I remove pulseaudio and install ALSA I can then get the settings,
> but there is no gnome volume control like existed in previous Ubuntu.
>
>   So -- I'm curious what others have done.  Is there a way to configure
> PulseAudio such that different audio options are available in pulldowns
> in applications like Skype?  Should I just go back to ALSA and grab the
> gnome volume tool from Ubuntu 9.04 (or 8.10 if that is where it came
> from on my other machines)?

My understanding is that this will be fixed in a future version of
Skype. For now, here's how to get audio to/from Skype to go to your
USB headset, using PulseAudio:

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=411431&view=findpost&p=1888951

And here's a workaround to send the ringing to your speakers:

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=411431&view=findpost&p=1898451

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