Skype has stopped working
I am running Sarge.
Skype used to work.
Yesterday, I tried to use skype and I received the following error:
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:812:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports
only playback stream
I then tried to record from my microphone using gramofile, and rec (from
sox package). Neither of these worked. No error messages, just dead
silence in the resulting.wav file. Today, I tried again (so I could get
the correct error message). Skype still gave the error listed above,
but both of the other two programs recorded normally. No, I did not
reboot since the tests yesterday.
The output of lsmod shows the following modules loaded:
snd_intel8x0 36140 1
snd_ac97_codec 69508 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 54376 0
snd_mixer_oss 19904 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 97480 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25668 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11720 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4736 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 8000 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 25316 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8264 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 57380 9
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10336 2 snd
Does anyone have any ideas on getting skype to work again, or why the
other recording programs work today, when they did not yesterday?
--
Marc Shapiro
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What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Boom. Sooner or later ... boom!
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