On 6 December 2014 at 10:00, Robert Peters <robertpeters9@...> wrote: > Hi, > I'm running an install from exegnu-jessv-20141125 on a recent > ThinkPad. Amarok when starting complains: > xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers. > Haven't found anything satisfactory in searching, but the problem goes > back at least to KDE3. > BTW, VCL works okay, after I select the mixer. Maybe it uses different drivers. > Robert Got alsa - xine - kmix - amarok working okay, by making sure that basic Trinity packages are installed. Now trying to get sound in Skype. A search showed that newer Skype requires PulseAudio and recommended installing pavucontrol. Compiling from source required installing several dependencies. Dbus strongly recommended, but it has broken dependencies. Still no sound. I wonder if it all requires systemd. In which case, are there any usable Skype alternatives? Robert