From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: skype Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:17:09 -0800 Message-ID: <442194A5.9000006@comarre.com> References: <1143022954.3360.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1143024288.4016.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4420FF2F.1060205@gelm.net> <1143039536.8302.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4421817D.6090606@gelm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4421817D.6090606@gelm.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: newbie linux 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs