I've managed to get Skype set up and working. I can hear the other person talking, but she can't hear me. During a conversation, I tried what I thought to be all possible settings in both the "Volume Control" application and in Skype itself. But no joy.
To make matters more puzzling, I had skype working on this same machine last year using CentOS 5.6... or maybe it was 5.7... I don't recall. And I've successfully recorded my own voice with this same microphone on Audacity.
So is there some secret to getting the Skype settings right?
Or are there some (other) tests I can run outside of Skype to determine what the I/O settings within Skype should be.
Any help is much appreciated.
Hello ken,
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:03:02 -0500 ken gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
I've managed to get Skype set up and working. I can hear the other person talking, but she can't hear me. During a conversation, I tried what I thought to be all possible settings in both the "Volume Control" application and in Skype itself. But no joy.
To make matters more puzzling, I had skype working on this same machine last year using CentOS 5.6... or maybe it was 5.7... I don't recall. And I've successfully recorded my own voice with this same microphone on Audacity.
So is there some secret to getting the Skype settings right?
Or are there some (other) tests I can run outside of Skype to determine what the I/O settings within Skype should be.
Any help is much appreciated.
This might be sound-hardware dependent, and architecture-dependent as well.
Here, on a Dell Latitude E6500, Skype 2.2.0.35 32bit installed (with tons of 32bit stuff including sound libs, I can't remember where I grabbed the install tips from exactly) on an up-to-date CentOS6 64bit.
In Skype settings: Sound Devices -> Microphone: PulseAudio server (local) <- anyway there's no other possible choice Speakers: PulseAudio server (local) <- .. Ringing: PulseAudio server (local) <- .. [x] Allow Skype to automatically adjust my mixer levels
Regards,
On Wednesday 18 January 2012, ken gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
I've managed to get Skype set up and working. I can hear the other person talking, but she can't hear me. During a conversation, I tried what I thought to be all possible settings in both the "Volume Control" application and in Skype itself. But no joy.
Does running alsamixer and adjusting the levels for the appropriate sound card help?
On 01/18/2012 02:03 PM, ken wrote:
I've managed to get Skype set up and working. I can hear the other person talking, but she can't hear me. During a conversation, I tried what I thought to be all possible settings in both the "Volume Control" application and in Skype itself. But no joy.
To make matters more puzzling, I had skype working on this same machine last year using CentOS 5.6... or maybe it was 5.7... I don't recall. And I've successfully recorded my own voice with this same microphone on Audacity.
So is there some secret to getting the Skype settings right?
Or are there some (other) tests I can run outside of Skype to determine what the I/O settings within Skype should be.
Any help is much appreciated.
For running Skype with audio and video, install dependencies using this command:
yum install libXScrnSaver.i?86 libX11.i?86 libv4l.i?86 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i?86 qt-x11.i?86
On 01/18/2012 11:53 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
For running Skype with audio and video, install dependencies using this command:
yum install libXScrnSaver.i?86 libX11.i?86 libv4l.i?86 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i?86 qt-x11.i?86
This is mainly for CentOS 6. I haven't seet you speak of 5.7
On 01/18/2012 05:55 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
On 01/18/2012 11:53 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
For running Skype with audio and video, install dependencies using this command:
yum install libXScrnSaver.i?86 libX11.i?86 libv4l.i?86 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i?86 qt-x11.i?86
This is mainly for CentOS 6. I haven't seet you speak of 5.7
Go to System/Preferences/Sound
On the hardware tab set up your sound card. Probably "Analog Stereo Duplex" would be appropriate.
On the input tab select the appropriate device radio button for where your microphone is connected. You might have to select the appropriate Connector if you are using a microphone plugged into your sound card. Adjust the Input volume setting. Be sure that the [X] Mute check box is not checked.
You should see the bar meter responding to your voice. If there is no response you've found your problem. If the mic doesn't work then Skype isn't going to have any luck with it either.
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