esd, skype, tor and boot

[Francisco Borges]

» On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:13AM -0300, Santiago Erquicia wrote:

> 2006/10/16, sebastien <scamu at no-log.org>:
> > Hi all !
> >
> > Every time I boot, and then launch Skype, I cannot make calls until I
> > 'killall esd' (I did not really undestand why & Im not technically
> > skilled enough to) :-)
>
> The problem is that your hardware doesn't allow to mix sound. Skype
> doesn't work with ALSA (it's like the sound driver) which allows
> software mixing or ESD that also mix sounds and blocks your sound
> card. There might be a solution on Skype's wiki page at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Skype

There is a "beta" available of the new version of Skype for Linux
(version 1.3); and that one does work with ALSA, and therefore does not
suffer from this sound driver locking problem.

I dont remember right now if it will use ALSA by default or if you have
to change it manually.

I have used this "Skype 1.3 Beta" with no problems at all with both
Dapper and Edgy.

Hope that helped...
-- 
Francisco