skype hangs

[Greg Gulrajani]

Fred Blaise wrote:

>Hello
>
>I am using skype 1.0.0.7-1 on Hoary.
>I know it's not a supported pkg, but I was wondering if anyone had that
>same experience I have.
>While chat works well, every time I try to use SkypeOut to call regular
>phones, skype hangs, and I need to manually kill it. I never tried
>phoning anyone from skype-to-skype, so i can't tell on that one.
>
>Anyone having the same problem?
>
>Thanks
>  
>
i think it might be hanging on the blocked dsp dev that is being used by 
the esd deamon -
i am not sure if Skype supports esd, if it does not support esd you can 
kill esd and it should work.

-best
-greg