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skype sound does not work - PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused

starting skype for linux gives message PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused (skype works, but no sound)

workaround:

rename pulse-default.conf in /etc/alsa to somethin else. (This file makes pulseaudio the default device for sound for alsa)
run /sbin/alsactl restore

(worked at Fedora 8, skype (and most of other apps trying to access/use pulseaudio) afterwards had no sound problems anymore - but-media player VLC did not play sound after that change)

source/reference

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-October/msg01325.html

solution

There is no known solution as of 01-2008. Skype for Linux  obviously does not support PulseAudio or PulseAudios ALSA wrapper yet.
This functionality is requested as a new feature.
It’s availability might be tracked watching the Skype for Linux developer zone:
https://developer.skype.com/jira/browse/SCL-237

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3 Responses to “skype sound does not work - PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused”

  1. Koen Says:
    Januar 27th, 2008 at 21:47

    Thanks a lot!!

    After hours of searching, head scratching, sweating, crying,… the music finally comes out of the speakers!

    Thanks a lot… I can not say more…

    Koen

  2. Troden Says:
    April 9th, 2008 at 02:48

    Unfortunately, this made things worse for me.

    I followed that simple instruction with no success. I then reverted the situation and put back the file and re-ran /sbin/alsactl restore.

    Now nothing works! When I run Soundcard-detection, I can hear the standard guitar playing joylfully but that is it. No sound anyway but the detection application. I have rebooted, coldbooted and yet nothing. Kmix has no devices listed. KDE does not have any audio. When I run Alsamixer, I get a response that Pulseaudio is unable to connect “Connection refused”. I suspect I f’d up pulse but with this one command, I don’t know how it could be.

    I’ve googled for some possible options but nothing effective so far.

    Any suggestions?

    The system is Fedora 8 32bit on an AMD Athlon 64 with a Creative Labs Live! card in it.

    I look forward to any help. Please!

  3. 2Linux.Admin Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 22:52

    Troden,
    It is very difficult to troubleshoot your problem remotely. So far, the workaround described her seemed to work pretty well so far for most of those who had to use it. One thing is particularly strange: you can hear the test sound (standard guitar) playing ? Then the core sound system (drivers) are obviously loaded and ok. Did you tried the “reload” and “reinitialize” feature of the soundcard detection admin utility ? Also there might be dependency to the services your are running, in partucular to the hardware and hardware-detection and -reinitialization services. Did you changed the service startup configuration ?
    After all, I honestly think that the 2Linux blog does not have the know how power to help you (2Linux.Admin for example is even not using KDE but GNOME/XFCE, which comes with some own sound-tools …)
    I recommend to post your problem at http://www.fedoraforum.org
    Thats not (only) a blog but a forum with a huge user-base and heavy expierience …
    /h.

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