On Tuesday 09 Jun 2009 11:49:22 Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Ozan ?a?layan at 09/06/09 09:39 did gyre and gimble: > > Colin Guthrie wrote On 09-06-2009 11:08: > >> This contains 28 patches in total, the 27 original patches suggested > >> by Lennart, minus an SHM one which was causing me crashes on startup, > >> plus a further two that Lennart didn't originally include but which we > >> later discovered on IRC are needed by other patches already included. > > > > What's the situation with the following revert, did you have > > positive/negative feedback about it? > > > > From 698034f58ac6d85e386155e3ed71044b8dd0edf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Colin Guthrie <cguthrie at mandriva.org> > > Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 14:48:46 +0100 > > Subject: [PATCH 105/105] Revert "core: when applying delay memblockq > > take monitored sink latency into account" > > > > This is being tracked in https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=49947 > > This commit seems to have caused problems in skype, so we'll try without > > it and see what the users say :) > > > > This reverts commit a4cea4e469d3baf27890820eba030b7acdf63daa. > > Well I got very mixed results with this revert. It did seem to help me > use skype and this is where my bisect ended up. I've not pushed this > revert into our official packages yet (it was in cooker for a while but > no-one said it helped so I've now dropped it. > > I did a little more testing with skype and managed to make three test > calls in a row without any problem, so I've asked people on the above > linked mandriva bug to test the latest version with these 27 patches to > see if it helps in practical usage of skype (my testing is perhaps a > little contrived!). Hi Colin. When testing with skype have you tried making any long calls? Mine works for about half an hour and then I can no longer hear the other end of the call. Using ALSA works forever, it seems. A reboot is the only cure I've found so far. Thanks, Mark > > > On the positive front, one of the Skype linux devs has tried to contact > me after I made some comments on their forums about being vaguely > involved with pulse dev and wanting to help advise them on the best > implementation. Sadly he tried to contact me via skype so I've only just > seen it. Perhaps their next version will be all singing and dancing :) > > Col >
