On Tuesday 12 January 2016 21:54:36 Curt Howland wrote:

> I wish I knew. Mines broken too, and Pulse is installed by default in
> Debian.
>
> I think it's a conspiracy, the Pulse/systemd author is being paid by
> Microsoft to destroy the Linux user experience.
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Kate Draven <borglabs4@...> 
wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm trying to get skype sound to work but apparently the monkeys at
> > MS removed alsa support and replaced it with pulse, which is
> > rubbish. Even though I have pulse enable (pclos - ali's remaster),
> > it still doesn't show up. Is there a fix to re-enable alsa or the
> > like?
> >
> > Kate

We meet again. :)

I think we are all in that leaky boat Kate, running wheezy here.  I 
have "alsactl restore" commands in at least 2 places where it should be 
exec'd when I reboot, but it still doesn't work at all, NO sound until X 
has started, and I have logged in and opened a terminal and typed it in 
as the logged in user.  You must have configured it to work, and did 
an "alsactl save" (or store? IDK) as that user first of course so it has 
fixed settings to restore to.

I believe the correct terminology for the reboot default of muted sound 
is what the British would call "a right PITA"?  If prodded, I could come 
up with far more descriptive terms that are NSFW for sure.

So I would call up the alsomixergui, and see if you can make skype work, 
and when you have, quite the gui and do the save/store. See the alsactl 
man page for that correct syntax.

And good luck!

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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