Skype on XO 1.5

[Sameer Verma]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> sameer wrote:
>  > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
>  > > sameer wrote:
>  > >  > At the behest (more like pestering) of my mother, I installed Skype
>  > >  > (Fedora 13+ version) on a XO 1.5 with build 874 and it all works. This
>  > >  > is on the GNOME side. Both audio and video. I'm going to add a +1 in
>  > >
>  > > too late!  everyone's switched to google+.  ;-)
>  > >
>  >
>  > I'm the IT guy for my family and my wife's family. Don't get me started :-)
>  >
>  > > but just to tag this thread with a version number, i'm guessing
>  > > you installed skype-2.2.0.35-fedora.i586.rpm ?  i'll give it a try.
>  >
>  > Yes, the 2.2 beta
>  > I did a "yum --nogpgcheck install skype-2.2.0.35-fedora.i586.rpm which
>  > brought in the qt dependencies.
>
> confirmed.  seems to work (the test call, at least) fine on 11.2.0.
>
> paul
> =---------------------
>  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
>
>
>

Tried a call between a XO-1 (build 874) and a XO-1.5 (build 874)
running Skype 2.2 Beta. Call goes through both audio only and
audio/video. The audio gets a bit choppy when video is on, but I'm not
sure if that's because of the XO-1 or Skype or my network.

cheers,
Sameer