skype

skype

[John Woodrow]

Hello,

I'm having problems with Skype, I installed the rpm for fc3 but I am
using fc4.  Many people claim to have got this working but I am having
problems with the mic, people can not hear me.  I've made sure the mic
volume is turned right up in volume control but this makes no
difference.  Has anybody had the same experience who can help?

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Re: skype

[chuck gelm]

John Woodrow wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm having problems with Skype, I installed the rpm for fc3 but I am
>using fc4.  Many people claim to have got this working but I am having
>problems with the mic, people can not hear me.  I've made sure the mic
>volume is turned right up in volume control but this makes no
>difference.  Has anybody had the same experience who can help?
>
>-
>
Hi, John:

 I use SKYPE both with Windows and with Linux.
The audio is tricker, for me, with Linux.
Does your microphone audio work locally?
I do not use FC? nor .rpm, so I can offer no help
in those areas.

HTH, Chuck

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Re: skype

[Hal MacArgle]

On 03-20, chuck gelm wrote:
> John Woodrow wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm having problems with Skype, I installed the rpm for fc3 but I am
> >using fc4.  Many people claim to have got this working but I am having
> >problems with the mic, people can not hear me.  I've made sure the mic
> >volume is turned right up in volume control but this makes no
> >difference.  Has anybody had the same experience who can help?
> >
> >-
> >
> Hi, John:
> 
> I use SKYPE both with Windows and with Linux.
> The audio is tricker, for me, with Linux.
> Does your microphone audio work locally?
> I do not use FC? nor .rpm, so I can offer no help
> in those areas.
> 
> HTH, Chuck

	Dunno about Skype or Fedora Core 3/4, but was wondering if
your problem could be the particular sound card you're using??

	I've noticed that many not only require "Volume" and "Mic"
set high but a possible other "slider" that affects it too?? Does
your mixer have an obscure additional slider??

	I have one card that needs three set and unmuted to work
properly... Flail away... <grin>

	Chuck asks if the Mic works OK locally.. Usually Mic inputs
are not stereo and one of the pin outs is +5 for an electronic mic..
I could be way wrong depending on the card, etc... Just a thought..

HTH.

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Re: skype

[Hal MacArgle]

On 03-21, John Woodrow wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 15:59 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> > On 03-20, chuck gelm wrote:
> > > John Woodrow wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Hello,
> > > >
> > > >I'm having problems with Skype, I installed the rpm for fc3 but I am
> > > >using fc4.  Many people claim to have got this working but I am having
> > > >problems with the mic, people can not hear me.  I've made sure the mic
> > > >volume is turned right up in volume control but this makes no
> > > >difference.  Has anybody had the same experience who can help?
> > > >
> > > >-
> > > >
> > > Hi, John:
> > > 
> > > I use SKYPE both with Windows and with Linux.
> > > The audio is tricker, for me, with Linux.
> > > Does your microphone audio work locally?
> > > I do not use FC? nor .rpm, so I can offer no help
> > > in those areas.
> > > 
> > > HTH, Chuck
> > 
> > 	Dunno about Skype or Fedora Core 3/4, but was wondering if
> > your problem could be the particular sound card you're using??
> > 
> > 	I've noticed that many not only require "Volume" and "Mic"
> > set high but a possible other "slider" that affects it too?? Does
> > your mixer have an obscure additional slider??
> > 
> > 	I have one card that needs three set and unmuted to work
> > properly... Flail away... <grin>
> > 
> > 	Chuck asks if the Mic works OK locally.. Usually Mic inputs
> > are not stereo and one of the pin outs is +5 for an electronic mic..
> > I could be way wrong depending on the card, etc... Just a thought..
> > 
> > HTH.
> > 
> 
> Thankyou people,
> How can I check if the mic works locally?  I've got all the volume
> controls turned up to max in gnome and have used the echo123 service but
> with no luck.  My soundcard is a Creative Labs SB Audigy.

	Do you have 'man arecord' or 'man rec'?? The former is you're
using ALSA sound; the latter if you're using OSS sound.. Suspect the
former is correct.. Can you invoke 'alsamixer'? This is getting
involved, eh??

	Trouble is; if "local" works that still wont really solve
your problem... Ugh..

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Re: skype

[Peter]

I just tested in Fedora 4 and Skype works fine.

They have a test, dial echo123 and follow the instructions. Enter echo123 in 
the dial bare then click the green phone handle for dialing.

Make sure all the settings for volume control, I am using 
gnome-volume-control, are set to maximum.

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Skype

[Lee Revell]

I am afraid the well known Skype+aoss problems may be unfixable from the
ALSA side. It appears that the Skype binary is self modifying and takes
extensive measures to make sure it is not being run in a debugger or
emulator. This almost certainly would eliminate any LD_PRELOAD hacks
from working.

http://www.secdev.org/conf/skype_BHEU06.handout.pdf [^]

I believe the only solution to get Skype working with dmix etc. is for
the Skype developers to add proper native ALSA support.

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skype

[John Woodrow]

Hello Everyone,

dmesg | grep -i sound ............gives no reply.
dmesg | grep -i sound
application mixer_applet2 uses obsolete OSS audio interface
application firefox-bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface


I bring up volume control by right clicking on the speaker icon and
selecting 'Open Volume Control'.  Everything is set to max including
LOADS of things I don't understand like various PCM's, EMU10K1 PCM 1 to
32, EMU10K1 PCM Send 1 to 32.  If I mess with EMU10K1 PCM Send Routing 1
it results in silence from either 1 or both speakers so I leave well
alone but the other 31 are fine.  Sorry if I'm giving useless
information but I don't know enough to distinguish.  None of them are
muted.  I also have every channel turned up in alsamixer, so I think
that's a yes to the question about whether I can invoke alsamixer.

[root'at'localhost /]# lsmod | grep snd
bash: lsmod: command not found
[root'at'localhost /]# lspci -v | grep -A 5 audio
bash: lspci: command not found


I looked for 'modules.conf' in /etc/ but could not find.  Using locate I
got these results:

/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/mapping-modules.conf
/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/ssl-modules.conf
/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf


I have man arecord.  There is no squeal when I place the mic close to
the speaker.

Thanks guys,

John.


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Re: skype

[John Woodrow]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:22 +0100, John Woodrow wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> dmesg | grep -i sound ............gives no reply.
> dmesg | grep -i sound* 
> application mixer_applet2 uses obsolete OSS audio interface
> application firefox-bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface
> 
> 
> I bring up volume control by right clicking on the speaker icon and
> selecting 'Open Volume Control'.  Everything is set to max including
> LOADS of things I don't understand like various PCM's, EMU10K1 PCM 1 to
> 32, EMU10K1 PCM Send 1 to 32.  If I mess with EMU10K1 PCM Send Routing 1
> it results in silence from either 1 or both speakers so I leave well
> alone but the other 31 are fine.  Sorry if I'm giving useless
> information but I don't know enough to distinguish.  None of them are
> muted.  I also have every channel turned up in alsamixer, so I think
> that's a yes to the question about whether I can invoke alsamixer.
> 
> [root'at'localhost /]# lsmod | grep snd
> bash: lsmod: command not found
> [root'at'localhost /]# lspci -v | grep -A 5 audio
> bash: lspci: command not found
> 
> 
> I looked for 'modules.conf' in /etc/ but could not find.  Using locate I
> got these results:
> 
> /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/mapping-modules.conf
> /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/ssl-modules.conf
> /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf
> 
> 
> I have man arecord.  There is no squeal when I place the mic close to
> the speaker.
> 
> Thanks guys,
> 
> John.
> 

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*I'm sorry, I made a mistake, the fourth line of the above text should
read 'dmesg | grep -i audio'

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Re: skype

[chuck gelm]

Hi, John:

 Darn.  No lspci and no lsmod.  Oh, well.
Perhaps you need to find a Fedora  Core list server.  :-|
Does the microphone work otherwise?  On another computer?
Can you hear a scratchy noise from the speakers when you
 plug-in/out the microphone connector into the sound card?
Can you hear others when using SKYPE?
 (They just cannot hear you?)'

Regards, Chuck


>>There is no squeal when I place the mic close to
>>the speaker.
>>
>>Thanks guys,
>>
>>John.
>>    
>>
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Re: skype

[John Woodrow]

The mic works fine with a windows system.  There is no scratchy noise
when I plug the mic in.  I can hear other people when I use Skype but
they can not hear me.

Thanks for your time,

John

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Re: skype

[chuck]

John Woodrow wrote:

>The mic works fine with a windows system.  There is no scratchy noise
>when I plug the mic in.  I can hear other people when I use Skype but
>they can not hear me.
>
>Thanks for your time,
>
>John
>  
>
Hi, John:

 Good.  Then there is soemthing errant in the configuration.
What, I don't know.
:-|
Chuck


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Re: skype

[Ray Olszewski]

chuck wrote:
> John Woodrow wrote:
> 
>> The mic works fine with a windows system.  There is no scratchy noise
>> when I plug the mic in.  I can hear other people when I use Skype but
>> they can not hear me.
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>>
>> John
>>  
>>
> Hi, John:
> 
> Good.  Then there is soemthing errant in the configuration.
> What, I don't know.
> :-|
> Chuck

If I've followed this discussion correctly so far, indications are that 
the hardware itself is okay, but that either Skype or kernel sound is 
misconfigured.

Since the mike itself functions with a different system, the next 
question is whether the sound hardware is properly configured in Linux. 
I don't recall that you've told us the details of either hardware or 
software. What sound card (or chipset, if it's onboard the mobo) is 
involved (what does "lspci -v" tell you about it)? What distro and 
kernel are you using ("uname -a") and are you using OSS or ALSA sound? 
If you use modules for sound, what does "lsmod" report about them? (You 
will want to run both lsmod and lspci as root, BTW.)

Does the card work properly when recording through both the line and the 
mike inputs? (Try recording with gramofile, or your recording program of 
choice. Be sure to use either rexima (OSS) or alsasound (ALSA) to set 
the appropriate recording source.)

I've had mobos (using some VIA chipset) on which the sound *seemed* to 
work using OSS with 2.4.x kernels, but on which I actually could only 
play back, not record, until I switched to ALSA. If you don't *know* 
that sound *input* works independent of Skype, I really think you should 
confirm that it does before you go too far down the road of 
Skype-specific troubleshooting.

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Re: skype

[Yawar Amin]

Hi John,

On 3/22/06, John Woodrow <samuraiinlove@gawab.com> wrote:
[...]
>
> [root'at'localhost /]# lsmod | grep snd
> bash: lsmod: command not found
> [root'at'localhost /]# lspci -v | grep -A 5 audio
> bash: lspci: command not found
[...]

Try

$ which lsmod lspci

It should tell you that lsmod and lspci live in /sbin. So Fedora users
by default have to give the full path:

$ /sbin/lspci
$ /sbin/lsmod

HTH,

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RE: skype

[Xfree99]

Hmmmm.... strange..

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Skype

[Peter Marshall]

I keep getting articles on my desk, and reading news posts about how 
*bad* skype is.  I just wanted to here what everyone here thinks of 
skype.  Do any pf you allow it on your network ?

Thanks
Peter

Re: Skype

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:38:05PM -0300, Peter Marshall wrote:
> I keep getting articles on my desk, and reading news posts about how 
> *bad* skype is.  I just wanted to here what everyone here thinks of 
> skype.  Do any pf you allow it on your network ?

One customer of mine, a multinational enterprise with like 11K
employees in Germany alone, has completely banned Skype from the
network. I don't know what happened, but judging from the grade people
go ballistic if you even dare to mention "VoIP" or "Softphone", it was
something really really bad.

Greetings
Marc

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