On 25/05/18 16:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Hi > > I've whined about this before, but now I feel the overwhelming urge > to whine some more. Forgiveness begged... :) > > I've spent some very frustrating times trying to get a microphone > to work when doing skype calls. > > According to the various sound tools available on Centos all the > various > mics I have (built into webcam, analog headset, USB headset)produce > sound just fine. > > but when using skype there are too many different knobs one can turn > to actually make it work. There's PulseAudio, Alsamixer, and for me, > since I use the Mate desktop, the Mate Volume Control, which can also > be accessed by a right-click on the speaker icon in the top panel. > > then in skype I get a list of 5 (FIVE!) different audio input devices. > > I just spent a frustrating time trying to join in a daily scrum at > my office (I'm out of the office today) wherein I could not get > outgoing > audio to work. > > afterwards I tried more things and managed to get ONE of the 3 to work, > the one built into the webcam. to do that I had to make the following > settings: > > choose Input tab in the Mate Volume Control, then move the volume > slider most of the way over to the right. > > In Alsa Mixer, set front mic to 70 and front mic boost to 100. > > In Pavucontrol, enable webcam audio input, and crank it way up. > > in Skype, choose "default device", as distinct from "Default Device", > or the other three choices. > > There's gotta be a better way, I'm open to suggestions from anyone else > who has figured out how to configure the system to work with Skype, > without > having to configure FOUR different applications before it will work. > > thanks (a lot!) in advance! > > --------------------------------------------- > > I am afraid I do not have an answer. I looked at your post with the > hope you would get a lot of responses. > > I finally gave up trying to get Skype to work with Cemtos 7 and put > together a dual boot system with a microsoft os too. > > Skype works fine on the microsoft os, but I never could get it to work > on centos 7. > > Greg I have two laptops with C7 and skype - both pick up the laptop microphone just fine. On one of the laptops, the inbuilt mic is too noisy as it picks up the fans - it is a high powered i7 chip and fast graphic card thus lots of heat. So on that one I simply plug in an analog mic into the mic jack and that too just works (tm), Sorry to hear your particular setup is problematic - five mics does seem a lot, I guess no one has that many options. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos