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posativ

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Registered: 2009-08-06

Posts: 6

When Skype, Songbird starts, sound is muted

Since a few weeks I have the following issue:

When launching skype, alsamixer's volumes for sound will be turned to 0%/ muted. Skype never can play the starting sound.
When setting back the sound level manually, and Skype tries to play another sound (call e.g.), it will be muted again.

Same happens with songbird, if it helps, to identify the problem.

Using: i686, alsa, pulseaudio with no ~/.asoundrc config and an Audigy 2.

Thanks in advance.

JuseBox

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Registered: 2009-11-27

Posts: 260

Re: When Skype, Songbird starts, sound is muted

Have your tried to set the audio levels and then run as root:

alsactl store

also is you user in the audio group?

gpassword -a {username} audio

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posativ

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Registered: 2009-08-06

Posts: 6

Re: When Skype, Songbird starts, sound is muted

The first one helped. Have it already done, after installing Arch Linux. Don't know why it did not work anymore...

Thanks!

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,362

Re: When Skype, Songbird starts, sound is muted

Probably because since then the kernel updated and something changed in the driver for your device.

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