I've got an old Dell Latitude R-400 GT laptop, which I just installed Linux on. It's a Pentium 2 running at 400 MHz, 128 MB RAM, so really low-spec by today's standards.

The problem is that Skype is unacceptably choppy on this machine. Obviously the machine is slow, but when Windows 2000 was on it, Skype ran fine (using the iLBC codec). Is the Linux version of Skype perhaps less efficient than the Windows version, requiring faster hardware for similar performance?

Anyone else experienced anything like this?

Thanks,

GDI

I have much better hardware than you, but it takes ages to load, but other than that...no.

Thanks for the response.

What hardware do you run it on? I had it running on a first generation 700 MHz Athlon (running Linux) once, which worked fine, but only with the iLBC codec, not ISAC.

Seems silly that it worked ok in Windows, but not in Linux. I'll add another 128 MB of RAM and see of that makes a difference - perhaps there's too much paging going on.

GDI

nope, Skype for Linux works perfectly fast here, heck it's faster on Linux than on Windows.

xboxrulz

[quote=gdi2k]Thanks for the response.

What hardware do you run it on? I had it running on a first generation 700 MHz Athlon (running Linux) once, which worked fine, but only with the iLBC codec, not ISAC.

Seems silly that it worked ok in Windows, but not in Linux. I'll add another 128 MB of RAM and see of that makes a difference - perhaps there's too much paging going on.

GDI[/quote]
Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz, 512 RAM, shared memory with video card. Ubuntu with Gnome Desktop

Xbox: You say that it's working hell faster than Windows. Are you using KDE?