On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Nux! wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Skype and Sound > > On 19.10.2012 19:30, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> On 10/19/2012 08:21 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, October 19, 2012 11:32, Nux! wrote: >>> >>>> James, >>>> >>>> It should just work. The only problem I had was switching from the >>>> laptop's microphone to the one that came with my headphones since >>>> it's >>>> more performant. I did this by selecting it in the sound >>>> preferences >>>> (gnome-volume-control). >>>> Also, make sure you have installed the 32 bit pulseaudio libs, if >>>> you're on 64bit; or you can "yum install" this repo which will pull >>>> in >>>> the required deps: >>>> >>>> http://repo.fedoramd.org/mirrors/russianfedora/nonfree/el/updates/6/x86_64/skype-4.0.0.8-1.el6.R.i586.rpm >>> >>> Your package works fine. Thank you very much. I checked the >>> dependencies against what was installed as x86_64 versions and cold >>> find nothing missing. Do you happen to know, or strongly suspect, >>> why >>> the 32 bit version works and the 64 bit version does not? >>> >> >> As I can see, only Ubuntu and debian have 64-bit versions of Skype. >> Have >> you found somewhere 64-bit version for fedora/EL? > > There is no 64bit version of Skype. > The Ubuntu one is a fake 64bit package btw, all it contains is the same > lousy i586 binary, that's why we need the 32bit version of the libs. > The RPM from Russianfedora differs from the official one, it actually > installs a statically linked binary which seems more stable. > > HTH I use the static version I downloaded directly from Skpe's website - not a Centos repo. skype_static-2.2.0.35.tar.bz2 HTH Keith ----------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------