skype hangs

[Cristiano Paris]

Santiago Erquicia wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 09:14 +0100, Fred Blaise wrote:
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>>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
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>I had the same problem and it is due to sound.  My sound card doesn't
>allow hardware mixing and that is required for skype.
>
>My symptoms were that when there is a call, I cannot even answer it.
>The buttons work but they don't have any effect.  I can even move it
>into the tray.  When I try to close it, it complete freezes.
>
>I'm trying to use "esddsp skype" but couldn't make it work yet.
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Neither I. I tried the edsdsp skype trick (esddsp is in the 
esound-clients package) and now it doesn't hang anymore, but I can't 
hear anything nor the callee can hear anything...

I still have to track down the problem.

Cristiano