Skype: Troubles with hearing people and people hearing me

Apocalypse · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 53

I tried the skype forums but they don't seem to be very helpful. Has anyone here gotten Skype to work under linux? I can't get people to hear me, and I can't hear them. I tried chowning /dev/dsp to my user, I've tried chmod 777 it, I've tried running in user and root. The closest I've gotten is that I can hear the ring as root. But the person can't hear me and I can't hear them. My microphone works fine, I can record in another program with no problem and when I talk in it, I can hear it through my speakers. Gentoo with latest version of Skype, ALSA drivers for ESS Maestro 2E soundcard, using fluxbox (no KDE or Gnome). Any help would be appreciated.
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hybrid · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:35 am Post subject:

it works flawlessly, but sometimes i am able to hear the other while they don't, or the inverse ... but this problem is related to my connection :s (behind a restrictive firewall)

Apocalypse · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 53

Maybe it's because of my firewall. I'm behind a SmoothWall.
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge windows-xp

Apocalypse · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 53

Maybe it's because of my firewall. I'm behind a SmoothWall.
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge windows-xp

joolz · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 72 Location: sweden

try switching to OSS, that solved the problem for me. I also got a maestro sound card.