Clive, I have an on-board Realtek card in my home computer. It's not my main card, so I generally don't have to do much adjustment. However, if a cable is connected to it, it insists on knowing what the device is - microphone, speaker etc. Why it should need to ask that when the sockets have specific purposes I don't know, but it's a real pain. The dialog is not very screen reader friendly and because I don't swap cables much I've forgotten how to describe it.
So I guess the good news is that I can confirm your difficulties. The bad news is that I can confirm your difficulties. Until you tell the thing that you've plugged in a microphone, my experience is that it won't be recognised - quite ridiculous. Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Clive Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 17 October 2008 02:09 To: gw-info@gwmicro.com Subject: Problems with Realtek Audio Manager, SKYPE 'microphone' and the WINDOWS 'Volume Control settings Hi, Is there anyone on the list who has experience of working with the Realtek Audio Manager? I have recently had to replace a computer and the new one, a Medion Akoya with WINDOWS Vista Home Premium installed on it, is equipped with a Realtek High Definition Audio sound system. It looks all-singing-and-dancing but is giving me a real headache. I am using a fully up-to-date version of WE 6.1 and as far as I can tell there are no problems there. However, When it comes to using SKYPE I cannot get the 'Mic' settings to work at all. I should say at this stage that play-back is perfect, both through speakers and headphones but neither an independant 'mic', plugged into either the rear panel 'line-in' jack-socket, or the 'mic' jack of my noise-cancelling headphones plugged into the front panel's 'mic' jack-socket will work. I've been through the Control Panel 'Sound' settings extensively; also tried adjusting settings via the Systray's 'Volume control' but without success. I've worked through the help and trouble-shooting info both in Windows and on the SKYPE website and still no joy. I keep coming back to the conclusion that the problem lies somewhere within the default settings for the Realtek sound system. Here I hit three problems....... Firstly, I can find nowhere on my machine any help or configuration info for this device. Secondly, it appears to use 'Static boxes' to display some information. Not only do these seem incapable of interaction but the info that WE is reading off seems both contradictory and confusing. A couple of 'for instances' would be: "Headphones.... HDMI out..... Static Box" "Rear speaker out..... Line-in..... Static Box" Thirdly, When working through those controls available for making changes to settings WE will neither define their specific purpose nor, in some instances, speak their current state. With regard to 'Static boxes', is what I am hearing simply a rendering of information that is laid out to convey an image as it where of how the Back and Front panel sockets are arranged? Combined with the Realtek problems WE is not speaking the state of controls within the 'Volume Control' dialogue Box. Typically, these are the 'mute' controls but additionally, some buttons, check-boxes and edit fields are apparently missing; e.g. those relating to 'Wave' and 'mic' inputs/outputs. Prior to purchasing this machine I've always used Creative Labs SB multi-channel soundcards and have never before hit a brick wall quite as solid as this one appears to be... If anyone can help I'd be very grateful... Cheers, Clive Stevenson -- Clive Stevenson If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to gw-info@gwmicro.com so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. ********************************************************************** This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain privileged information or confidential information or both. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it and notify the sender. ********************************************************************** If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to gw-info@gwmicro.com so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
