Yesterday I struggled with Skype on IBM X20. This laptop has CS4281 onboard that didn't work in 2.6.16 but is working in 2.6.17-rc*. Mplayer and most other applications work OK, with both native ALSA and snd_pcm_oss emulation. But Skype had very distorted and chopped sound. Some googling showed that people use the following two lines to change (increase?) the buffer sizes in OSS emulation to get it to work. These 2 lines fixed it for me too: echo "skype 256 65535 direct block" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss echo "skype 256 65535 direct block" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss But this seems to be needed only for some sound drivers, other work wine out of the box (there's been a lot of discussion about this in Skype forum). Leaving aside the weak sound support in Skype, why do some drivers need increasing the buffers and some don't? -- Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx) _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
