I've managed to get Skype set up and working. I can hear the other person talking, but she can't hear me. During a conversation, I tried what I thought to be all possible settings in both the "Volume Control" application and in Skype itself. But no joy. To make matters more puzzling, I had skype working on this same machine last year using CentOS 5.6... or maybe it was 5.7... I don't recall. And I've successfully recorded my own voice with this same microphone on Audacity. So is there some secret to getting the Skype settings right? Or are there some (other) tests I can run outside of Skype to determine what the I/O settings within Skype should be. Any help is much appreciated.
Hello ken, On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:03:02 -0500 ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote:> I've managed to get Skype set up and working. I can hear the other > person talking, but she can't hear me. During a conversation, I tried > what I thought to be all possible settings in both the "Volume Control" > application and in Skype itself. But no joy. > > To make matters more puzzling, I had skype working on this same machine > last year using CentOS 5.6... or maybe it was 5.7... I don't recall. > And I've successfully recorded my own voice with this same microphone on > Audacity. > > So is there some secret to getting the Skype settings right? > > Or are there some (other) tests I can run outside of Skype to determine > what the I/O settings within Skype should be. > > > Any help is much appreciated.This might be sound-hardware dependent, and architecture-dependent as well. Here, on a Dell Latitude E6500, Skype 2.2.0.35 32bit installed (with tons of 32bit stuff including sound libs, I can't remember where I grabbed the install tips from exactly) on an up-to-date CentOS6 64bit. In Skype settings: Sound Devices -> Microphone: PulseAudio server (local) <- anyway there's no other possible choice Speakers: PulseAudio server (local) <- .. Ringing: PulseAudio server (local) <- .. [x] Allow Skype to automatically adjust my mixer levels Regards, -- wwp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120118/c09a8fd4/attachment-0005.sig>
On Wednesday 18 January 2012, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote:> I've managed to get Skype set up and working. I can hear the other > person talking, but she can't hear me. During a conversation, I > tried what I thought to be all possible settings in both the "Volume > Control" application and in Skype itself. But no joy.Does running alsamixer and adjusting the levels for the appropriate sound card help? -- Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> "La Esperanta Civito ne rifuzas anticipe la kunlaboron de erarintoj, se ili konscias pri sia eraro." -- Heroldo Komunikas, n-ro 473.
On 01/18/2012 02:03 PM, ken wrote:> I've managed to get Skype set up and working. I can hear the other > person talking, but she can't hear me. During a conversation, I tried > what I thought to be all possible settings in both the "Volume Control" > application and in Skype itself. But no joy. > > To make matters more puzzling, I had skype working on this same machine > last year using CentOS 5.6... or maybe it was 5.7... I don't recall. > And I've successfully recorded my own voice with this same microphone on > Audacity. > > So is there some secret to getting the Skype settings right? > > Or are there some (other) tests I can run outside of Skype to determine > what the I/O settings within Skype should be. > > > Any help is much appreciated. >For running Skype with audio and video, install dependencies using this command: yum install libXScrnSaver.i?86 libX11.i?86 libv4l.i?86 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i?86 qt-x11.i?86 -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant