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

Sat Mar 15 13:42:47 UTC 2008
Lanny Marcus <lannyma at gmail.com>

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                                                                 │
│                                                                              │
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│    │▒▒│     │▒▒│      │  │     │  │               │▒▒│    pre 3D    │▒▒│     │
│    ├──┤     ├──┤      └──┘     └──┘     ┌──┐      ├──┤              ├──┤     │
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│    └──┘     └──┘                        └──┘      └──┘              └──┘     │
│  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