2009/5/19 Daniel Bush <[email protected]> > > > 2009/5/19 Steven Heimann <[email protected]> > >> Skype also failed for me with Jaunty but I simply went to Skype main >> menu - options - sound devices and selected pulse. After that it seems >> to work. >> >> lspci lists sound card as Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 >> Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) > > > Mine is: > Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) > > My skype settings were all pulse to begin with before I started hitting the > permutations. > I'm paying the price for getting a slightly fancier controller I fear. > Playback with pulseaudio was definitely better than without. >
Well, I took a deep breath and thought I'd give debian lenny 5.0.1 a try rather than downgrading to previous ubuntu. I've managed to get skype sound capture working again for my card (above). For the sake of anyone who is in my situation with the intel 82801H HD audio controller: There was no sound initially after running the netinstall. I ran 'alsaconf' as root, and it recognized my card and apparently did some.twiddling for me. I then ran the gnome sound tests and almost had my head blown off; it was very very LOUD - so be careful boys and girls - let me sacrifice my hearing so that you may keep yours. Skype/microphone still wasn't working; so in alsamixer (press F4 for capture controls) I set 'Input Source' to 'Front Mic' for my first input source control; also quite possibly one or more of the muxes and general capture settings had to be turned up. I let skype adjust my audio settings (that tick box near the bottom). I was using the latest static skype 2.0.0.72. Now it seems to be back to normal when I do a test call. There's no pulseaudio on this system - I don't necessarily think or really know if it had anything to do with the problems - just a datapoint for you. I did most of this in ubuntu 9.04 except for the alsaconf bit. -- 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
