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Svend Christian Svendsen
Asked: 2010-10-28 06:51:36 +0800 CST

Skype locking up, and microphone "lagging"

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I've always had this problems with skype and pulseaudio on ubuntu. Whenever i start up skype, i have to call someone, then hang up 4-5 times, before the other person can hear my voice.

When i, or the other person hang up, skype tends to lock up. I can't kill it with "killall skype" or a logout, so i have to restart my computer.

Have anyone else encountered this problem, and if so solved this? I'm using 10.10 btw.

10.10 skype voip

6 Answers

  1. This may be unrelated, but i had all sorts of problems with ubuntu skype, until i went into skype configuration an unchecked, allow skype to manage sound settings.

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  2. I encountered this problem. It happen less time if I install skype using the Canonical partner repository Software Tab.

    Else, to kill skype, you can go to system => Administration => System Monitor, and then you right click on the Skype process, and you kill it. It seems to be more powerfull than killall. It works for me.

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  3. This makes no sense, but I fixed this for myself but uninstalling a gmail checker. No kidding. I don't know if it was messing up pulse when it alerted me, but now both Skype and Rhythmbox work fine.

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  4. Your microphone volume could be too "high". Open "Sound Preferences" and try reducing it in the "Input" tab. Test it with the Sound Recorder application.

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  5. I had a similar problem sometime ago and I found the solution in this RH bug (comment 27).

    Commenting the line load-module module-suspend-on-idle out in the /etc/pulse/default.pa file solved my latency problem.

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  6. For me launching Skype from the command line like this fixed it:

    PULSE_SERVER=127.0.0.1 skype
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