On 3/12/07, Theo Band <theo.band at xanadu-wireless.com> wrote: > > Well I tried Twinkle and it works, but on a scale from 0 to 10 I give > the sound a 5 were I can give the Skype sound quality a 9+. Strange that > it seems to be so difficult to get good sound quality on Centos/FC. My > motherboards are A8N32-SLI Deluxe and Foxconn NF4UK8AA-8EKRS both > equipped with onboard Realtek ALC 850. > Has anyone experience (good or bad) with the Realtek ALC 850? > > Theo I've had very good sound quality with Skype 3.0 on Windows XP inside VMware with CentOS 5 (beta). I've been using SkypeOut and Vono (similar product, other soft-fone client) inside VMware with impressive quality (wth CentOS 4 it wasn't as good as now). For Linux soft-fone, I have heard that this one is very good: http://www.sjlabs.com/sjp.html I'll give a try. Leonardo