Cant get apulse working on Arch-Linux

[Marschelloss]

Hi there,

i installed apulse to get Skype working on Arch-Linux. But somehow i cant get it working. In the Skype Option Menu the Speakers "Virtual Device" is listed. But neither the testsound or a testcall work.

Also with the command "APULSE_PLAYBACK_DEVICE=hw:0,0 skype" i cant get it working. My "aplay -l" output is:

[indy@WinArch ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 11: HDMI 5 [HDMI 5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

My used Soundcard with Alsa is the HDA Intel PCH.

thanks!

[i-rinat]

hw:0,0

What about plughw:0,0? Apulse doesn't perform any mixing and relies on dmix and dsnoop in ALSA.

[Marschelloss]

Same problem. No sound at testcall/testsound.

[i-rinat]

Are there any warnings printed to stdout? What about plughw:0,1?

[k0ste]

Works on Arch from prev. year, and works perfectly. All what you need https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-apulse-git/

[lodgerz]

how do you run skype? with "$ apulse skype"? try to remove pulseaudio