Hi, I've spent the best part of a sunny afternoon trying to get Skype to work on my CentOS 5 desktop. My soundcard seems configured OK. I can play sounds and hear them OK in my headset: $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*.wav I can record speech from my microphone OK: $ arecord > ~/test.wav ... although I have to say that sound quality seems rather poor. It's quite fuzzy. Other detail: curiously when I speak into the microphone I don't hear my own voice in the headset. I've installed the CentOS RPM from skype.com, but no matter what I do, I can't seem to have outgoing sound. Whenever I do a test call (echo123), there's no message left. I've been jumping through burning loops giving all the options and their possible permutations a shot, to no avail. Though curiously that thing worked on a Linux Mint 5 install. But then, I won't change distro because of one small detail. Any suggestions? Niki