Fedora 14 - Skype Disaster

[MJoshi]

I recently installed Fedora 14 (KDE) on an Acer laptop and then installed the Skype Fedora 10+ RPM from the Skype website.

I was unable to get the audio working with Skype and read on some forums that PulseAudio can cause a conflict. So, I uninstalled all the PulseAudio modules using Application manager. This took a few hours and after it had finished uninstalling, I found that many of the KDE programs and utilities had disappeared?

After rebooting the laptop, it will no longer start KDE? The Fedora logo appears and fills in but then, there's just a blank screen?

Can anyone help?!

 

[Modelworks]

I haven't been happy with fedora 14. I have an install of it I think I am going to wipe. My advice go to an earlier version that was working for you. I only went with 14 because I am trying to find an alternative to paid redhat releases. I have some software that is insistent on the OS being redhat or one of its variants , so no debian based OS.

 

[Emulex]

centos?

 

[MJoshi]

CentOS doesn't have a KDE distribution as standard?

 

[Nothinman]

I recently installed Fedora 14 (KDE) on an Acer laptop and then installed the Skype Fedora 10+ RPM from the Skype website.

I was unable to get the audio working with Skype and read on some forums that PulseAudio can cause a conflict. So, I uninstalled all the PulseAudio modules using Application manager. This took a few hours and after it had finished uninstalling, I found that many of the KDE programs and utilities had disappeared?

After rebooting the laptop, it will no longer start KDE? The Fedora logo appears and fills in but then, there's just a blank screen?

Can anyone help?!

Those KDE packages must depend on KDE so it removed them in order to do what you asked. I haven't used Fedora in a while, but I'm sure it warned you before doing that.

Were you getting no audio at all or was it just very poor quality? Does Skype output any errors to the console if you run it from the cli?

 

[penguinhead]

Hi I'm running CentOS 5.2 and 5.4 on several desktops, and am quite pleased with it. Although the default install does not automatically install KDE, you can choose to install it as an option. With CentOS 5.4 you get KDE 3.5.
I am also running Fedora 14 on an Acer netbook, and am experiencing similar problems with Skype. Fedora comes with KDE 4.? as an option, and I am not very pleased with it. It seems much less stable than KDE 3.X. I downloaded the Skype rpm for fedora, but I could not get the audio to work. (So far I think ALSA is much more stable than Pulse) and the web cam didn't work in skype. I had an older Skype rpm for CentOS, and when I installed it, the web cam seemed to work. But when I called the call testing service, I noticed that there was about a 15 second delay in the recorded audio. I could hear my voice, but only if I talked over top of the instructional message. I also had to disable the setting to allow skype to control the mixer levels. If I left that on, Skype always turned the volume all the way down. I still don't have a workable solution for Skype on Fedora 14, and am thinking about going back a few versions of Fedora.

Hope this information helps someone.

 

[Nothinman]

Pulse is another layer on top of ALSA, which is part of the problem. I'm really not sure what problem distros were trying to solve by including it by default.