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!