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

Sat Mar 15 15:41:17 UTC 2008
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>

On Saturday 15 March 2008 13:42, Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On 15 March 2008, Niki Kovacs contact at kikinovak.net  wrote:
> <snip>
>
> >Much closed source software has a "Gold" release.
> >
> >Fire up a console and launch 'alsamixer'. Check your microphone settings
> >there.
>
> Card: Sound Fusion CS46xx                                                  
>  │ │ Chip: Cirrus Logic CS4298 rev 3,Cirrus Logic CS4298 rev 3             
>       │ │ View: [Playback] Capture  All                                    
>            │ │ Item: Master                                                
>                 │ │                                                        
>                      │ │    ┌──┐     ┌──┐      ┌──┐     ┌──┐              
> ┌──┐              ┌──┐     │ │    │▒▒│     │▒▒│      │  │     │  │         
>      │▒▒│              │▒▒│     │ │    │▒▒│     │▒▒│      │  │     │  │    
>           │▒▒│              │▒▒│     │ │    │▒▒│     │▒▒│      │  │     │ 
> │               │▒▒│              │▒▒│     > │    │▒▒│     │▒▒│      │  │  
>   │  │               │▒▒│              │▒▒│     > │    │▒▒│     │▒▒│      │
>  │     │  │               │▒▒│              │▒▒│     > │    │▒▒│     │▒▒│  
>    │  │     │  │               │▒▒│              │▒▒│     > │    │▒▒│    
> │▒▒│      │  │     │  │               │▒▒│              │▒▒│     > │   
> │▒▒│     │▒▒│      │  │     │  │               │▒▒│              │▒▒│     >
> │    │▒▒│     │▒▒│      │  │     │  │               │▒▒│              │▒▒│ 
>    │ │    │▒▒│     │▒▒│      │  │     │  │               │▒▒│             
> │▒▒│     │ │    │▒▒│     │▒▒│      │  │     │  │               │▒▒│    pre
> 3D    │▒▒│     │ │    ├──┤     ├──┤      └──┘     └──┘     ┌──┐      ├──┤  
>            ├──┤     │ │    │OO│     │OO│                        │MM│     
> │OO│              │OO│     │ │    └──┘     └──┘                        └──┘
>      └──┘              └──┘     │ │  100<>100 100<>100      0        0     
>         100<>100          100<>100   │ │ < Master >Headphon  3D Contr 3D
> Contr 3D Contr    PCM    PCM Out    Line     │
> └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
>────┘
>
> Niki: I don't see anything for the microphone there!
>
> Note: When alsamixer came up in the terminal window, the only view option
> seems to be for Playback, which is shown above. Should it be possible for
> me to get a view of Capture too? How?
>
> >In Skype, there's a small utility with a voice server, where you can
> >check your sound configuration easily.
>
> I use their test robot to test, but when I try it with Skype for Linux,
> when they are going to playback what I speak into the microphone, there's
> one beep and then almost immediately, a 2nd beep. When I do that while
> using Skype for windows, I can hear what I speak into the microphone.
>
> I get the Digest version of the ML but I will check back, online, for
> further ideas today! Thank you for your very quick reply!  Lanny
>
Are you sure that there are no more channels to the right?  (keyboard arrows 
to navigate, 'M' to toggle muting.)

Anne