I would like to share with You my solution to make new Skype (v4.3.0.37) to work with Debian 7.5 or 7.6. I have done this more times and it works for me. I hope that helps to others too.
So... New Skype uses Pulseaudio as sound server. As I have experienced, Debian by default uses ALSA and in its default installation, so I had to make Pulseaudio to work correctly and to produce clean sounds with everything including Skype.
Here is the steps that I have done and works fine with clean sound:
- create the file : etc/asound.conf with the following content :
pcm.pulse { type pulse }
ctl.pulse { type pulse }
pcm.!default { type pulse }
ctl.!default { type pulse }
- the last 2 lines (!default) use only if you want that pulseaudio should be the default sound system on your linux... basically you dont need it for proper work...
- install the followings:
pulseaudio (+pulseaudio-module-x11 will come automatically)
pavucontrol
- pavucontrol will be your basic sound setting control, you should set anything from here
- modify the following settings:
/etc/pulse/default.pa :
load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf :
default-sample-rate = 48000
/etc/default/pulseaudio:
DISALLOW_MODULE_LOADING=0
- after all these, it's adviseable to restart your computer...
- if the sound is still not nice and clean, then you may play around with the following settings
in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf :
default-fragments = 8
default-fragment-size-msec = 5
# Default
default-sample-channels = 2
# To 5.1
default-sample-channels = 6
# To 7.1
default-sample-channels = 8
high-priority = no
nice-level = -1
realtime-scheduling = yes
realtime-priority = 5
flat-volumes = no
resample-method = speex-float-1
default-sample-rate = 48000
- finally... if interrupting play in Amarok when running Skype
comment out or remove the line in the
/etc/pulse/default.pa :
load-module module-cork-music-on-phone
For me these settings worked every time I have done them.
I hope I could help some
Have a nice day
