Well, I found a novel solution... I sacked the client that demanded I use skype!
I did just about get it running on Jaunty 64bit. There's a real problem with pulseaudio and unplugging devices: locks everything up and the cpu runs flat out. It also seems to be very order specific: leave the headset plugged in. Always. Skype will run using the statically linked version ( skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2 ) by running padsp /usr/local/bin/skype but the quality - using the echo test - was poor. That's about as far as I got. I don't like pulse audio at all - sound really is a mess, isn't it! Steve On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:37 +1200, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > Hi Steve, > > are you still going mad with that headset. > > I think I have an identical one, using ubuntu 9.04 32 bit. > (but I have self-compiled ALSA drivers/libs/plugins because I'm > developing drivers, so YMMV with the distro standard ones) > > It works fine. I mostly use it with Skype rather than for listening to > music etc. > > -- > Eliot
