Skype sound

[Paul O'Malley]

Johann Spies wrote:

>I could not get Skype's sound working properly on two (hoary) laptops:
>IBM R31 and Sahara G200B.  On both the other side could hear me but I
>get a distorted sound.
>
>Tricks like switching off esd or changing the "auto_spawn" switch in
>/etc/esound did not make any difference.
>
>I have read somewhere that this type of problem would probably only
>solved in Breezy. Will I have to wait until then before I can use
>Skype on Linux?
>
>The Skype version:  1.2.0.11
>
>  
>

Hi Johann,

As I do not have the the laptops you mention, this may not be useful but
I mention it for what its worth.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SkypeHowto/

the reference to the kde package might be of use

Your skype version is the latest (at least according to my machine :))

Regards,

Paul O'Malley