On 03/06/18 09:34, Fred Smith wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 04:12:58PM +0100, Fabian Arrotin wrote: >> On 05/03/18 19:53, Fred Smith wrote: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> I've finally been reduced to having to install Skype on my Linux box. >>> I resisted for years, but now ended up trying it. >>> >>> and while the latest RPM installs just fine, it refuses to acknowledge >>> that I have a microphone! >>> >>> In fact I have two: 1 in the USB web cam (it finds the cam), the second >>> in a Plantronics USB headset, which works fine but not with skype. >>> it is as if it doesn't exist. >>> >>> So, when I connect to someone I can hear them, see them, and they can >>> see me, but I'm producing no sound output. >>> >>> All the web hits I can find for nonfunctional microphone on the web >>> are for Ubuntu. GAH! >>> >>> running ldd against the skypeforlinux binary results in a huge list >>> of shared libraries, including libasound (which is what the ubuntu >>> messages say is missing). >>> >>> Anybody got a clue? >>> >>> Thanks in advance! >>> >>> Fred >>> >> >> I'm not a skype user myself, so haven't tried it, but as there are many >> apps that are in FlatHub, and so directly accessible for CentOs 7 (that >> comes with flatpak since 7.4.1708) >> >> Have you tried with that one ? > > No, but wouldn't it be the same binaries as MS distributes? (which is > what I have). > > I posted a reply to my own message in which I noted that I had later > discovered that it works fine with my old analog mic/headset, but > the USB one may as well not be attached, as Skype acts as if it is > not even there. Does USB microphone work with other applications? > > Weird-but-frustrating, because my USB webcam works, but skype refuses to > use the mic that is built into the webcam (as well as pretending that > the usb headset doesn't exist). so it appears that skype is ignorant > of USB audio devices. Not sure why that would be, since such things are > "just another" audio device. > > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++