I remember a relatively recent thread in which folks complained about having trouble getting their microphones to work in Skype with FC6, but I don't recall a definitive solution being posted.  It took me quite a bit of fiddling, but I finally got it. For the use of anyone who cares, here are the relevant mixer settings from my GNOME volume control.  I did this on a Thinkpad T41, with Intel 82801DB-ICH4 using the ALSA drivers.  I'm using skype-1.3.0.53-fc5. On the Playback tab, line in and mic are muted.  Master and PCM are unmuted--Master is up full and PCM is at about 75%. On the Capture tab, both the speaker icon and the mic icon are unmuted. They are linked, and they are set at about 40% gain.  (Much higher and you'll start to hear feedback.) On the Switches tab, I have Mic Boost (+20dB) checked, and (inexplicably, but it works--I don't know yet if other settings also work) Microphone Capture and Line-in Capture are unchecked. On the Options tab, Mic Select is Mic1. When the Skype test call connects, if you have the Capture tab displayed, you will see the gain boosted to about 70%.  The test call works fine and the playback is perfectly audible. So the key seems to be to put Mic Boost on and adjust the gain for a reasonable level with no feedback. Hope that info helps somebody.

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Claude Jones wrote: > On Fri December 29 2006 7:27 pm, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >> I remember a relatively recent thread in which folks >> complained about having trouble getting their microphones to >> work in Skype with FC6, but I don't recall a definitive >> solution being posted. It took me quite a bit of fiddling, >> but I finally got it. >>

>>[...] >> >> Hope that info helps somebody. > > Matthew: At least one of those recent discussions had to do with > Skype arbitrarily turning off settings after a call or two - I > can't make out the pattern, though I'm sure there is one, but > after using Skype, once, sometimes more than once but never more > than a few times, I find the capture level turned back down to > 0. Sometimes re-setting the level fixes it, sometimes not - when > it doesn't work, I have to shut down Skype and restart it. It's > become a pain. Today, I reinstalled vmplayer and fired up XP on > this machine, and was surprised to find that Skype worked > perfectly - that's an unfortunate state of affairs. > > If you continue to experience consistent behavior, and Skype > continues to work each and every time with the approach you've > taken above, please post back and let us know. > > To reprise - two problems, which have been discussed here and on > the Skype forums: > 1-Skype on Linux seems to have an issue with the soundcard > settings, and they are occasionally reset to 0, especially the > capture setting - turning the capture volume back up will > sometimes solve the mic not working issue > 2-Skype will work for a call or a few calls, and then the mic > will stop working - sometimes it's just the level setting as > described in 1, though sometimes, even though the level has been > set back to 0 and then re-set to a correct record level, Skype > will still not respond to mic input, and has to be restarted. Yep, I reemember those threads, but there was also a thread about getting it to work at all, and that's the one I was addressing. I'm not a frequent user right now, but I do need it, so I was glad to get it working at all. I'll keep an eye out for these other issues and report back if I learn anything. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

On 04/01/07, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > On Fri December 29 2006 7:27 pm, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > I remember a relatively recent thread in which folks > complained about having trouble getting their microphones to > work in Skype with FC6, but I don't recall a definitive > solution being posted. It took me quite a bit of fiddling, > but I finally got it. > > Sorry, it didn't work for me. I'm still trying to find the solution or > at least the pattern for this behaviour, but not success for now. Does anybody know how to configure this beast in KDE? I cannot for the life of me to get the mic to work, and I've been playing with Kmix for over an hour now. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/voip.html http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/lyrics/49/16/ac-dc/ballbreaker.html

> You will want to set the record source to the mic, but its not turned on > in the play screen, and you'll probably need the +20 db switch enabled in > the mic channel. > No, that didn't work for me. Not before, and not now that I'm trying it again. And I'm fairly sure that the hardware is fine because Skype worked under Kubuntu a few weeks ago.

I remember a relatively recent thread in which folks complained about having trouble getting their microphones to work in Skype with FC6, but I don't recall a definitive solution being posted. It took me quite a bit of fiddling, but I finally got it. For the use of anyone who cares, here are the relevant mixer settings from my GNOME volume control. I did this on a Thinkpad T41, with Intel 82801DB-ICH4 using the ALSA drivers. I'm using skype-1.3.0.53-fc5.