skype steals sound card

[François Patte]

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Le 06/05/2011 16:41, Konstantin Svist a écrit :
> On 05/06/2011 03:51 AM, François Patte wrote:
>> I am wondering how to prevent skype from stealing the soud card
>> everytime some of my contacts connect (even if he does not ring me)?
>> i.e.: a contact open skype while I am listening to some music, the music
>> is cut and I have to close skype (which is in stand-by) if I want to
>> recover my music
> 
> Did you turn off Pulseaudio? Because it's supposed to prevent this behavior.

No! skype uses pulseaudio (it is the only choice I have in the options.

I listen to music by the way of xmms which does not semm to use
pulseaudio: I cannot see any reference to pulseaudion in xmms options.

Thanks for having answered.

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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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