esd, skype, tor and boot

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 10/16/06, Francisco Borges <f.borges at rug.nl> wrote:
> 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.

Version 1.3 is released and no longer in beta. I use it on Edgy, with
a USB headset, and haven't encountered any problems yet. Admittedly, I
don't use it very much, but I have made multiple calls in the same
session successfully.

I suspect, though, that the original poster has version 1.3 (that's
what you've been offered when you download from Skype for at least the
last week or so), so the issue may still exist on some hardware.

-Eamonn