[SOLVED] Skype notification sound breaks sound in totem

The problem is as follows:
When skype plays his notification sound, sound volume in totem is going down to zero. When skype notification sound is finished, totem volume is back. I can distinctly see this process in the last tab of gnome sound settings.
I use the following softwate:
# pacman -Qqs alsa
alsa-lib
alsa-plugins
alsa-utils
gnome-alsamixer
lib32-alsa-lib
lib32-alsa-plugins
pulseaudio-alsa
# pacman -Qqs gstreamer
clutter-gst
gnome-video-effects
gstreamer0.10
gstreamer0.10-bad
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins
gstreamer0.10-base
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-good
gstreamer0.10-good-plugins
gstreamer0.10-ugly
gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins
perl-gstreamer
totem
# pacman -Qqs pulse
lib32-libpulse
libao
libcanberra-pulse
libpulse
pulseaudio
pulseaudio-alsa
I have no extra configurations for any of this packages. All packages are up to date.
The problem is only between skype and totem. Skype doesnt conflict with gmusicbrowser, flash players.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by evaliauka (2012-06-30 11:01:22)

Hi,
I have actually the same problem, but apparently pulseaudio has changed since the last solution above because my file /etc/pulse/default.pa is not the same.
There is no longer module-cork-music-on-phone module, and load-module module-role-cork is already commented out.
Does someone have the same issue? Is there another solution?
Thanks in advance!

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theodore wrote:...uninstall it and install it again.
I did not. Just tried but it still won't run...
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(1/1) loading package files [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [######################] 100%
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