[CentOS] Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect

[Niki Kovacs]

Lanny Marcus a écrit :

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> Niki: I don't see anything for the microphone there! 
> 
Even if you scroll to the right? Try the [CursorRight] key. Alsamixer 
shows only as many channels as it's capable of in one console screen. 
Try scrolling. Ah, yes. To unmute a channel, use the [,] key. This one 
deserves the Silliest Shortcut Of The Year Award :oD

One other thing. You mentioned several mixer apps, IIRC. I've seen some 
Linux installs of the kitchen sink type, where people installed just 
everything available on the DVD. Result: you get everything from GNOME, 
KDE, XFCE, plus any other available window manager. As a result, you 
also get several concurring sound systems: ALSA, OSS, Arts, and IIRC 
there's something called 'esound'. It's a bit like folks installing LPR 
and CUPS at the same time. When you have several pieces of software 
attempting to talk to the same device, there will inevitably be conflicts.

I've been a long-time Slackware user, and Slackware has one guiding 
principle: KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid!

On my CentOS desktop, I have *one* desktop environment: XFCE. One sound 
system: ALSA. And one mixer app: alsamixer (I uninstalled xfce4-mixer).

So what you could do to make things easier: establish which sound system 
and sound mixer app you are using. And then get rid of the unused ones.

Cheers,

Niki