skype (Was: Re: flash and firefox)

[Alexander Leidinger]

Panagiotis Astithas <past at ebs.gr> wrote:

> I've been experiencing a "strange sound problem" with skype. I don't

Not as strange as we had initially.

> get any audible alerts when I have incoming calls or chat messages. 
> The device is correctly defined (/dev/dsp), the sound files are 
> installed in /usr/X11R6/share/skype/sound, yet they don't seem to get 
> played. The voice calls work great though.

Do you have "vchan"s enabled? If not: add some and try again. Is skype able
to find the sounds? Did you browsed the skype forum for this problem?

Bye,
Alexander.

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