Skype no sound on Kubuntu 13.10

Posted by Michael Aquilina on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Michael Aquilina
Published on 2013-11-02T17:20:10Z Indexed on 2013/11/06 16:13 UTC
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I just performed a fresh install of Kubuntu 13.10 on my machine. Everything is working great except for Skype.

I cannot get any form of audio playback in Skype. In the sound settings panel I get a bunch of different sound sources, none of which work! At the moment I have set it to "sysdefault (unknown)"

I installed it using the deb package found on the official website. My phonon backend is using phonon-gstreamer.

When running skype from the terminal I get the following error messages:

ALSA lib control.c:953:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL plughw:CARD=PCH
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

Is this a known problem or has anyone experienced the problem and managed to solve it?

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