On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 11:44 +0000, Andrew wrote: >> But this is disappointing because I want my PC to be completely >> functional and skype is part of that requirement - so I suppose I'm >> going to have to look around for an alternative to CentOS (5.3). > > My wife uses Skype on Centos 5 (currently 5.4) regularly. While I don't use Skype regularly, I can confirm that it works on CentOS 5.4 by connecting to it's test call service. If your desktop is gnome, run gnome-volume-control and go to the "capture" tab. Make sure microphone is ON. I had to do this before I could get the microphone to work. Akemi