On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Arun Raghavan <arun.raghavan at collabora.co.uk> wrote: > 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 ............. I'm not sure how I missed the -r1 >>> Unpacking skype-4.2.0.11.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/net-im/skype-4.2.0.11-r1/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/net-im/skype-4.2.0.11-r1/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/net-im/skype-4.2.0.11-r1/work/skype-4.2.0.11 ... * Applying skype-4.2.0.11-desktop.patch ... [ ok ] Thanks.