Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote > I don't know. Pulseaudio doesn't use hw mixing even if it's available. > But hw mixing should allow you to run Skype and Pulseaudio side by side > so that Skype doesn't go through Pulseaudio. I can imagine that there > could be some advantage of a setup like that, but no idea how > significant the advantage would be. But if this is a networking issue, > hw mixing won't help a bit. Ok, I now use some settings from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Configuration_of_the_ALSA_PulseAudio_plugin and Skype output sounds more fluent now, especially with load-module module- hal-detect tsched=0 Malte
