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mikehoro · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:41 pm Post subject: acer aspire one & skype

I have mint 13 & tried to get skype to work but cannot get the onboard mic to work.I have checked in puleaudio mixer & the mic is on but no joy. Any help most welcome Thanks

arochester · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:14 pm Post subject:

Have you tried setting the sound IN Skype?

S Button(Bottom Left)>Options>Sound Devices

You may need to experiment with the drop-down settings for "Microphone"

mikehoro · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:25 pm Post subject:

Yes tried all settings in skype.it does not seem to be registering with pulse.So I tried audacity to check the on board mic this works fine. So the problem is with skype i think

einonm · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:50 pm Post subject:

I've had issues with Skype sound, but on Fedora. I managed to get it working by using alsamixer, a CLI tool that allows you to fiddle with settings for each sound card individually.

I think the issue is with the Gnome sound settings applet, it doesn't seem to attach the displayed volume controls/sliders to a different sound card when selected under the 'hardware' tab.

mikehoro · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:11 pm Post subject:

The problem was solved by setting right mic channel to silence in pulse audio mixer & setting let skype control mixer to off (untick it)
Thanks for all your help