Running Slack 12 (close to vanilla install) and using KDE for my
desktop**.

I installed Skype beta 2.0.0.27 from linuxpackages.net, and when I call
the Echo/Sound Test Service I get "Call Failed: Problem with audio
playback".

Now, here's the thing: if I use a different window manager, such as
Blackbox, it works fine. Obviously it is neither hardware nor ALSA
libraries causing the problem.

So, the question is, how should the audio setup in KDE be configured to
make it work? I seem to have tried everything obvious in the KDE control
panel for sound system, but I'm hoping someone here will tell me what
works for them.

Your responses, abuse, flames, and exhortations to RTFM, STFW, STFU, and
FOAD are all appreciated. Actual help even more so.

Mark

** Yes, I know that real Slackers run ODE, but I'm a softie who knows
nothing at all about computing. Please forgive me, even though I am,
remain, and always will be, unworthy.
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Signature eagerly awaits ode, the reduced fat version of ODE.