On 23/11/17 19:49, Sorin Srbu wrote:
The Skype flatpak at home worked beautifully, that is to say for about ten minutes, then the sound (using a Koss SB/45 headset) it started crackling to the point of not being usable anymore. I hung up and reconnected, then sound was fine, for another ten minutes at which point the crackling returned. Checking the sound prefs, I saw that alsa on the app tab had two instances, one stable and one that blinked like crazy, like it was opening and closing a few times a second.
On a hunch I downloaded the skype for linux rpm from the link above and installed it with yum. No lib errors! I started it and gave it a go, and - no crackling whatsoever. In fact it worked as good as it gets IMHO.
I think this was a known issue with Skype 8.10 for linux itself as I noticed it when I was looking for answers to the GLIBCXX dependency issue. It looks like the skype-stable repo just got updated to 8.11.0 which fixes both the dependency issue and the crackling one.
Peter