On Tuesday 10 October 2006 07:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 12:42, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I'm trying to get skype set up on my new laptop and I've run into a > > problem the sound card (Intel HDA) is setup and working (with mplayer > > and amarok) I've installed skype and the interface is working. There > > nothing wrong with the headset (it works on my old laptop). At first > > I kept getting "problem with sound device" error but I've solved that > > but the microphone doesn't appear to be working. When I make a test > > call I can hear the skype lady but I can't here my message when they > > try to play it back > > I've checked the alsa mixer and the microphone is set to capture and > > the volume up. I don't know what I'm missing. Sofar I havn't turned > > up anything in the wiki or forums. > > Has anybody got skype woking with this soundcard. Perhaps you could > > post your .asoundrc for me to have a look > > Skype is easy to set up, IF you have alsa working right... > > Using alsamixer, turn the mic vol right up, can you hear your own voice > in the headset? Make sure you have set the correct mic device, > select "Mic Boost" if it's there. Last resort is to deselect other > channels one by one and see if one of them activates the mic. I once > had a chipset where the mic wouldn't work if a certain IEC958 feature > was on. Until you hear your own voice in the speaker it will never work > > Then in skype make sure you select the alsa/oss option as appropriate, > it's somewhere in the Options. Skype uses alsa, make sure you do have > full support in the kernel > > alan
I'm getting nothing from the microphone. In alsamixer I only have four bars: Master PCM Line Mic With all at 90-100% The mic doesn't work with line or mic set to capture Is there a way to fix that? Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
