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

[SanskritFritz]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:03 PM, SanskritFritz <sanskritfritz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Mauro Santos
> <registo.mailling at gmail.com> 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, trying to decode 2 videos at the same time with
>> video decoding acceleration results in a hard crash. I have never tried
>> with skype and currently I'm using the free drivers so I have no way to
>> test this. If this is true for your case it should be quite easy to
>> reproduce.
>>
>> It might have been just a random crash caused by skype too, since it
>> isn't the most stable piece of software you can use.
>
> Thanks for this valuable advice again. I tested it, and indeed, when I
> turn on another video, the system locks up after a while (not
> immediately though).

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.