X86_64: Skype2.0 - "RtApiOss: OSS playback device (/dev/dsp) is busy."

Question

I should say that I managed to get Skype to work by installing the 32-bit alsa-oss and passing Skype through it (i.e. "aoss skype").
What's confusing to me is that, according to ArchWiki, versions 2.0 and up have native ALSA support. This means that alsa-oss should no longer be necessary, right?
Running plain Skype in a terminal, I always get the error "RtApiOss: OSS playback device (/dev/dsp) is busy."
dsp_hijacker has no effect in this case, nor does adding
pcm.dmixout {
# Just pass this on to the system dmix
type plug
slave {
pcm "dmix"
to my ~/.asoundrc (as the wiki suggests). The latter does nothing; running Skype by itself with this modification produces the same error, and Skype with aoss32 works without an .asoundrc.
Is there some obvious solution that I'm missing?
Last edited by cautha (2009-04-03 08:22:32)

Answer 1

@themaister: thanks for pointing that out!
I removed those modules from rc.conf and added my soundcard modules (according to wiki):
MODULES=(snd-ice1724 snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss)
I now have "dev/dsp" and "/dev/dsp1", but still no "/dev/sound/dsp" (though I'm not sure if I need this).
Hmmmm... It works! I don't know what did it. I retried several steps of the wiki. The last steps I tried were adding my cards with indices to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf and having alsaconf set up /dev/modprobe.d/sound.conf. Outputs are stille the same as in my first thread. Maybe I got mixed up along the way with pulseaudio installation/removal and blacklisting modules...
Last edited by JackSchnippes (2010-06-16 22:58:54)