[F17 KDE] Sound cutting out

[Lists]

On 11/29/2012 03:13 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Lists wrote:
>
>> So I have pithos installed (an excellent Pandora client that skips all
>> that nasty flash stuff http://kevinmehall.net/p/pithos/) and Skype.
>> Whenever Skype makes a sound, it cuts out all other system sounds, plays
>> the sound, and then the rest of the system sounds resume.
>>
>> I didn't have this problem with Fedora 16 doing the same thing with the
>> same programs (though I'm using an updated Skype client)
>>
>> Skype is set to use PulseAudio server (local) and there's no option to
>> change to anything else.
> It's possible skype is erroneously(?) using the pulseaudio corking feature
> when playing it's audio.  ie, normally you want your other audio to stop to
> take a call, for example.  see also,
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-
> June/010300.html
>
> To disable that feature,
> edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and comment-out the line referencing
> load-module module-role-cork
>
> -- rex
This turned out to be exactly the case! Thanks! The line was slightly 
different, I put "#" at the beginning of
this line and reboot:

#load-module module-cork-music-on-phone

and all was well with the world.