Project 4Fifteen

Well Ubuntu and Skype is a real pain.. No idea why they made it this difficult, but I decided to disable Pulse Audio and now finally, everything seems to work for my purposes. This includes Skype with microphone, Music, movies etc. No complex configurations to fiddle with every time the system restarts.

This guide will help you to kind of disable pulseaudio from starting / avoid pulseaudio to hog the sound hardware. It also solves the problem of every boot, the master channel is turned all the way down and muted.