John Andersen wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 January 2007 22:08, Doug McGarrett wrote:
>
>> just discovered something I don't understand: I have a microphone
>> connected to the machine, and a couple of speakers. But the mic is
>> activating the speakers! This should not be. The mic should only be
>> activated when something like Skype tells the system to connect the mic to
>> the outgoing message. Skype is vox-operated--when you talk into the mic,
>> the incoming audio is cut off, and the mic becomes predominant. When you
>> stop talking the incoming audio rules. Otherwise, there is feedback, which
>> I noticed the last couple of times I tried to use Skype.
>>
>
> Well sometimes this is caused by having the so-called "capture"
> input checked. This takes what you hear and pumps it back into the
> input. Infact some windows drivers call this option "what you hear".
>
> The only input source you want lit up (little red lights in Kmix) is mic
> and not Capture.
>
> Then again it could be the flaky Intel driver problems many have
> posted about.
>
>
Turning down AC97 did the trick for me to get rid of the microphone feedback
to the ear. Capture had to be left on for it to work. I usually bring
up krecord
and get it working and then switch to Skype.
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