Hello openSUSers, I know, I should be opening a bug on bugzilla but I am in hurry so hope that ALSA/openSUSE people could take in account of this brief report. It occurs that by starting SKYPE version 2.2.0.35-suse111, my Core i5 laptop freezes and keeps unresponsive for a couple of minutes. So far I was not understanding the reason of this problem but today I switched /var/log/messages immediately before to start Skype and I recorded the error Log in the annex. It appears an error of compilation of Skype's code as well as ALSA related issue. There are newer or patched versions of Skype for Linux around? Thanks. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.1 (Aspargus) - Kernel 3.1.10-1.9-desktop x86_64 Gnome 3.2.1 Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 - Intel® Sandybridge Mobile