> -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Peter > Sent: den 23 november 2017 23:44 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] [ot] Skype crackling (was: skypeforlinux lacks > dependencies, won't update) > > 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. Cool, thanks for the heads-up! Will check this out. -- //Sorin