skype hangs

[Fred Blaise]

But why does it stop working just now? I mean it's working fine on
warty, worked under various other linuxes on the same hardware, and just
hoary is not working??

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 09:36 -0600, Santiago Erquicia wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 09:14 +0100, 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 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.
> 
> Santiago
> 
> 
> 
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