why not try Gizmo? i does the same thing as skype ?? I really don't know much about them maybe when i get Big band rather than my little band (aka dailup)
On Thursday 14 September 2006 21:20, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:12, Robert Fisher wrote: > > Could somebody please help me set up my mic to work (with skype.) > > > > To be honest I do not even know how to check if the mic is working. > > You could load Krecord > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix krecord > [I] media-sound/krecord > Available versions: 1.14 1.16 > Installed: 1.16 > Homepage: http://bytesex.org/krecord.html > Description: A KDE sound recorder. > > Then try to record you own voice to a file. > > That works for me, but running skype emits the message:- > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:803:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) \ > The dmix plugin supports only playback stream. > > Ideas would be very welcome. > > Like Robert I'd like to get this to go. ( Brother in England )
