Re: [arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work

2012-08-05 Thread Mauro Santos
On 01-08-2012 18:48, SanskritFritz wrote: > Has anyone succeeded to use Pidgin video and audio over gtalk? Jitsi > works but I would like to use Pidgin. I'm trying to move away from > Skype. > Since no one chimed in so far I'll report what I have tested a while ago. Pidgin to gtalk didn't work,

Re: [arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work

2012-08-01 Thread SanskritFritz
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:03 PM, SanskritFritz wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Mauro Santos > wrote: >> I don't know if the graphics card you are using supports video decoding >> acceleration and if skype can make use of it, but at least here with the >> ati binary blob, I can only ge

Re: [arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work

2012-07-28 Thread SanskritFritz
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: > I don't know if the graphics card you are using supports video decoding > acceleration and if skype can make use of it, but at least here with the > ati binary blob, I can only get video decoding acceleration for one > video stream at a time,

Re: [arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work

2012-07-25 Thread Mauro Santos
On 25-07-2012 23:20, SanskritFritz wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:49 PM, SanskritFritz > wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Mauro Santos >> wrote: >>> There are reports that the uvcvideo module needs to be loaded with >>> nodrop=1 in order to get things to work smoothly, do search

Re: [arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work

2012-07-25 Thread SanskritFritz
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:49 PM, SanskritFritz wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Mauro Santos > wrote: >> There are reports that the uvcvideo module needs to be loaded with >> nodrop=1 in order to get things to work smoothly, do search in the >> forums, I believe I saw something about t

Re: [arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work

2012-07-25 Thread SanskritFritz
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: > There are reports that the uvcvideo module needs to be loaded with > nodrop=1 in order to get things to work smoothly, do search in the > forums, I believe I saw something about this there. I can't believe that I did not find this valuable i

Re: [arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work

2012-07-23 Thread Mauro Santos
On 23-07-2012 22:27, SanskritFritz wrote: > When I do a videochat in skype, the whole system freezes after a > while. This while can be a couple to 10+ minutes. The system locks up > usually when I start or close some other apps in the background. When > it happens the screen doesnt change anymore,

Re: [arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work

2012-07-23 Thread Victor Silva
2012/7/23 SanskritFritz > When I do a videochat in skype, the whole system freezes after a > while. This while can be a couple to 10+ minutes. The system locks up > usually when I start or close some other apps in the background. When > it happens the screen doesnt change anymore, and the sound s

[arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work

2012-07-23 Thread SanskritFritz
When I do a videochat in skype, the whole system freezes after a while. This while can be a couple to 10+ minutes. The system locks up usually when I start or close some other apps in the background. When it happens the screen doesnt change anymore, and the sound stutters the last half second over