2009/5/18 david <[email protected]> > > > Daniel Bush wrote: > >> Please, can anyone help. I can't get my microphone to work in skype. >> >> It's driving me nuts; i've spent the last couple of hours twiddling knobs >> like crazy and making repeated calls to the test service. >> >> If I load audacity and get it to monitor input and then do a skype it >> works >> but it's horrible - too much gain or something. But at least this tells >> me >> it's working in some shape or form. >> > > I'm still using 8.10, but Skype works fine for me. OTOH I've had problems > with
It was all working for me with hardy; maybe occasional problems but otherwise quite reasonable. > audacity stealing ALSA and not giving it back when it's finished. Very > frustrating. Why are you using audacity with skype? I read somewhere that someone had used it whilst troubleshooting - I've forgotten the link now. I installed it because at the very least it seemed like an independent indicator that I could use to test my mic. (I can't figure out how to test the mic using the gnome sound tests) I'm wondering if it's pulseaudio. It seems more prominent in jaunty than it did in hardy or maybe I disabled it in hardy - can't remember. I seem to have difficulty with audio on linux even though I don't think I've got particularly special hardware :(( skype versions tried: 2.0.0.68 and 2.0.0.72 . Static, oss static, dynamic etc... -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
