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Re: Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect
by Lanny Marcus 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

On 15 March 2008, Dag Wieers dag at centos.org wrote: <snip> >Thank you so much for reporting. However, it would be appreciated if >you could report improvements to the wiki on the centos-docs at >centos.org so reports like this one do not get overlooked. >I just made your proposed changes. >Thanks again, Hi Dag: You're welcome and I will try to remember to post any Wiki updates I come up with on centos-docs in the future! Lanny

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Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect
by Lanny Marcus 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

Note: The Wiki for Skype needs a tiny update. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype It's not a Beta now. Last night, I downloaded and installed skype-2.0.0.63-centos.i586.rpm The Skype web site calls this a "Gold" release. I'm having the same problem I had when I tried to use the Skype Beta. It's not picking up audio from the microphone. The hardware works fine, when I'm using MS Windows XP, but I hate to use Windows and I use Linux, except when I want to use Skype or MS FrontPage. I believe the problem has to do with a configuration setting. I use the GNOME Desktop. In System > Preferences > Sound > Audio Conferencing > Sound Capture there are five (5) choices: (a) CS46xx (b) ALSA (c) OSS (d) test sound (e) silence and I get the following results when trying to test them: (a) test and dies (b) test and dies (c) testing pipeline and I can stop the test OK. I suspect OSS is the one to select (d) test sound = OK (e) silence In System > Preferences > Volume Control for Capture, I changed the Device to OSS Mixer, but that doesn't cure the problem. Selected as ALSA, I've tried it with and without the 20 dB mic. boost. BTW, when I disabled the onboard Sound Chip and installed a very inexpensive generic sound card in this Dell Dimension 2400 box, the quality of the sound improved quite a bit. Any suggestions on what configuration settings I should try, or any other ideas, will be greatly appreciated! TIA!

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Siemens Samba 75 on CentOS 5
by Ern jura 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

I tried a work around i.e. installing Win XP as guest using VirtualBox and then running the modem from win XP seamlessly but ran into another brickwall. it gives the following error when I try to enable the Samba 75 for win XP: Failed to attach the USB device Siemens AG Wireless modules to the Virtual Machine Windows XP. Failed to create a proxy device for the USB device (error VERR_READ_ERROR).

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User creation problem
by Anne Wilson 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

system-config-users is giving me a problem. I need to create a user called 'groupware', without a home directory, and belonging only to a non-privileged group. I can create the user, but it sets it to belong to the group 'users'. When I try to set its default to 'nobody' and delete the 'users' entry it tells me that I must enter a home directory. How can I get around this? Anne

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PPC
by Mike Seda 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

Hi All, The only Centos PPC distro that I could find is at: http://vault.centos.org/4.0beta/isos/ppc Is there an official (non-beta) release of Centos 4 (or better yet Centos 5)? If not, are there plans for such a release? Best Mike

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Re: CentOS] Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect
by Lanny Marcus 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

On 15 March 2008, Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com wrote: > It's not obvious from that. There is an alsa-users list at > alsa-user at lists.sourceforge.net. I had to go to them once with a problem and > found that they have detailed knowledge of a lot of sound cards. The > solution to my problem wasn't obvious either - and it was a matter of finding > the channel setting to record, so similar to yours. They were very helpful. in GNOME: System > Preferences > Volume Control > Options > Mic. Select There are two (2) options: Mic1 and Mic2 My headset has stereo headphones, but the microphone is not stereo. Is it normal, that I would see two (2) options for the microphone?

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Re: CentOS] Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect
by Lanny Marcus 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

On 15 March 2008, Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com wrote: <snip> <It's not obvious from that. There is an alsa-users list at <alsa-user at lists.sourceforge.net. I had to go to them once with a <problem and found that they have detailed knowledge of a lot of sound <cards. The solution to my problem wasn't obvious either - and it was a <matter of finding the channel setting to record, so similar to yours. <They were very helpful. Anne: Thank you for that suggestion! If I can't get this working with help from this ML, I will ask them for help! Lanny On 15 March 2008, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet at gmail.com wrote: <snip> >man alsamixer, /view mode controls Good suggestion! Thanks!

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Re: CentOS] Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect
by Lanny Marcus 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

On 15 March 2008, Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org wrote: <snip> >In the Gnome mixer, make sure that the "Microphone" and the "capture" >microphone icons are NOT MUTED (a red is is muted) .. also change >devices to the OSS Mixer and in the capture tab, check the microphone >icon for microphone is also not muted there. Johnny: I think I have that OK. In the Skype Options for the Sound Card, I unchecked allow Skype to change the Mixer settings. Also, I took off the 20 dB boost for the mic. In Sound Preferences > Devices > Audio Conferencing > Sound Capture > I have it set to OSS. Am I correct, to have that set to OSS? When I did a test, I got this error message: gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat: Unable to open device /dev/dsp for recording: Device or resource busy When I try to do a test call, with the Skype robot, when they would play back what I have recorded, I get 2 beeps, with only 1 or 2 seconds in between them. When I try that on MS Windows, there is about 10 seconds where I can listen to what I have recorded. Your time and your help are greatly appreciated as are the countless hours you devote to CentOS! Lanny

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Re: CentOS] Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect
by Lanny Marcus 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

On 15 March 2008 Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org wrote: Sat Mar 15 15:25:13 UTC 2008 >In the Gnome mixer, make sure that the "Microphone" and the "capture" >microphone icons are NOT MUTED (a red is is muted) .. also change >devices to the OSS Mixer and in the capture tab, check the microphone >icon for microphone is also not muted there. Johnny: Thank you for replying! I will check those things, ASAP and report back here! Lanny On 15 March 2008, Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com wrote: <snip> >Are you sure that there are no more channels to the right? (keyboard >arrows to navigate, 'M' to toggle muting.) Anne: That helped a lot! :-) Thank you! Below is for the mic from alsamixer. Lanny ┌──────────────────[AlsaMixer v1.0.12 (Press Escape to quit)]──────────────────┐ │ Card: Sound Fusion CS46xx │ │ Chip: Cirrus Logic CS4298 rev 3,Cirrus Logic CS4298 rev 3 │ │ View: [Playback] Capture All │ │ Item: Mic │ │ │ │ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ < │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > < │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > < │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > < │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > < │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > < │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ pre 3D │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ Mic1 │▒▒│ │ │ ├──┤ ├──┤ ├──┤ ┌──┐ ├──┤ ┌──┐ │ │ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │MM│ │MM│ │ │ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ │ │ 100<>100 100<>100 100 100<>100 │ │ PCM Out Line CD < Mic >Mic Boos Mic Sele Video IEC958

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k3b doesn't burn video disk
by Anne Wilson 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

I create DVDs from camcorder output. In the past I've always just dragged the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders into k3b and the disk has burned successfully. On this new box I tried to do the same, but k3b says that it 'Found invalid entry in the VIDEO_TS folder (AUDIO_TS). That seems to be utter nonsense, if it means that AUDIO_TS is inside the folder VIDEO_TS. If it doesn't, AUDIO_TS is empty, as it always is for these videos. It has never been a problem in the past. Does anyone know the cause? Thanks Anne

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