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cautha

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From: Kingston, Ontario

Registered: 2008-06-02

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x86_64: Skype2.0 - "RtApiOss: OSS playback device (/dev/dsp) is busy."

I should say that I managed to get Skype to work by installing the 32-bit alsa-oss and passing Skype through it (i.e. "aoss skype").

What's confusing to me is that, according to ArchWiki, versions 2.0 and up have native ALSA support. This means that alsa-oss should no longer be necessary, right?

Running plain Skype in a terminal, I always get the error "RtApiOss: OSS playback device (/dev/dsp) is busy."

dsp_hijacker has no effect in this case, nor does adding

pcm.dmixout {
  # Just pass this on to the system dmix
  type plug
  slave {
     pcm "dmix"
  }
}

to my ~/.asoundrc (as the wiki suggests). The latter does nothing; running Skype by itself with this modification produces the same error, and Skype with aoss32 works without an .asoundrc.

Is there some obvious solution that I'm missing?

Last edited by cautha (2009-04-03 08:22:32)