On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 23:39 -0400, Weedy wrote: > So after my last email I changed the way emerge/gcc compiles > pulse/alsa to use MINIMAL flags (not even -march=native) and nothing > crashes anymore. > > The last thorn in my side is skype. When skype starts it's loging > sound seems to get stuck somewhere and never plays. Event sounds like > messages sent/received seem to corrupt some buffer somewhere and never > stop playing. During calls my USB mic will die and I have to switch to > a hardwired mic. If skype starts when I don't have another stream > running (mpd native pulse, or say youtube over alsa plugin) all > sounds/sources will have constant pops and crackles until I close > skype and any other sources and start it after. Have you looked at this? http://arunraghavan.net/2013/08/pulseaudio-4-0-and-skype/ -- Arun