On Sat, 2005-05-02 at 21:11 -0700, Niels Voll wrote: > Hi Jesse, > > An other thing just crossed my mind, which can be the case on some > mobo's. Do you have a front and a back microphone connection on your > machine? i.e.maybe there's a microphone plug somewhere at the front, > too. If yes, maybe only one of them works and the other one doesn't. I > think I remember that being an issue on some mobo's. So for example, if > the mobo sound system is connected to the front microphone connector, > then the rear connector stops working. On some machines the front > connectors are hidden. On a number of Dell's for example, they are under > a funny flap in front, next to front USB connectors.
No, I don't have any front audio connectors. > Then the last thing I can possibly think of is to try a few live CD's, > if you have any of those. For example, Knoppix, Ubuntu, MEPIS, or > PCLinuxOS are some, that I've had some successes with certain kinds of > hardware (they all are a bit different in what they recognize properly, > and where they burp). That's a good idea, I'll pop in a copy of Knoppix at test it out when I get a chance. I also went through the skype docs without any luck, but I will give it a closer look. It's not just skype that won't work, but any application that takes input from the mic. > But after that I'm pretty out of ideas - of course there could be a real > hardware problem, too - and then nothing much matters ... That's true, I appreciate all your help. I'll let you know how my Knoppix test goes. Jesse _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
