Hi everyone with mic problems,

to get your mic working, if skype is not recording from it, try the following:

- switch to the alsamixer view 'Capture' with TAB or start it with alsamixer -V capture -c CARDNUM
- make sure you have 'Mic' and 'Capture' sliders marked selected as CAPTUR ... to do this hit space



Once done, input should immediately be happening...

The above is for all you terminal junkies ... If you happen to run Ubuntu 6.10 beta, MattiS was nice enough to provide me with screenshots for this post:







For you KDE diggers running SuSE, see the post below for hints...

Let us know if this helps!

Regards,

Martin

there have already been posts that talks about this, but they use GUI ways to do it instead of using the command lines.

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=66109 (Works especially for SuSE users)

deltatux

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RockHound, please DO NOT SPAM the forum w/ ur fix because I have already point out your solution using the graphical way.

If you continue, I will report u for spamming.

deltatux

This post has been edited by deltatux: Sun Oct 15 2006, 21:13

there have already been posts that talks about this, but they use GUI ways to do it instead of using the command lines.

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=66109 (Works especially for SuSE users)

deltatux

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RockHound, please DO NOT SPAM the forum w/ ur fix because I have already point out your solution using the graphical way.

If you continue, I will report u for spamming.

deltatux

And now I summed it up for everyone to be able to follow with standard alsa tools ... I hope. But thank you for pointing out what you have done. We all appreciate your help.

Regards,

Martin

RockHound, please DO NOT SPAM the forum w/ ur fix because I have already point out your solution using the graphical way.

If you continue, I will report u for spamming.

deltatux

RockHound's description is good alternative way of doing this, so what are you talking about?
Not everybody uses SuSe, not everybody runs kde, and not everybody prefers graphical way.
I.e. I do not use SuSe, nor kde, and prefer alsamixer than X mixer tools.

Do you have any problem? Or maybe you have monopoly to post on the forum?

Made it a sticky, thanks RockHound

RockHound's description is good alternative way of doing this, so what are you talking about?
Not everybody uses SuSe, not everybody runs kde, and not everybody prefers graphical way.
I.e. I do not use SuSe, nor kde, and prefer alsamixer than X mixer tools.

Do you have any problem? Or maybe you have monopoly to post on the forum?

true, but he doesn't need to repost many times. Furthermore, the methods I've showed were KDE only but not necessarily SuSE only.

Thanks anyways RockHound.

deltatux

Another problem I've found is that skype doesn't play nice with dmix. You can work around this by changing the name of the /etc/asound.conf file and restarting the alsa devices and then restarting skype.

As root:

CODE

mv /etc/asound.conf /etc/asound.conf.bak
/etc/init.d/alsasound restart

(Info gleaned from ubuntuforums.org.)

"For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup dmix. Dmix is enabled as default for soundcards which don't support hw mixing."

Taken from http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin

That is quite true. For better calling quality, use ALSA 1.0.13.

deltatux

This post has been edited by deltatux: Sat Nov 4 2006, 03:51

Hi,

My mic doesn't work under skype-linux Settings seems to be ok.. alsamixer: CAPTUR on MIC and CAPUTRE (set to 100%) are set, In skype auido I've selected ALSA (I've got one sound on-board card) - I tried also on OSS.
I tried setting also Mic +20db boost.
My distro had ALSA 1.0.11, I've updated to 1.0.13 but stil nobody can hear me (on SkypeOut too).
Also I changed <AGC>0</AGC> in skype settings (shared.xml)

When I'm calling to echo123, after recording 10s message I hear beep, ~0,5s break (now I should hear my message), and again beep, on another computer (dell gx150, p3-1ghz, 384) with same distro/skype/settings, between that two beeps I hear my recorded message.(not ~0,5s beep)

When I set mic on in output, then I can hear myself, so microphone works fine, and linux settings seems to be set ok.

What else shoud I check?


Distro: Zenwalk 3.0
Kernel: Linux-2.6.18.1
X11: XFCE-4.3.99.2
ALSA: 1.0.11 (I've upgraded to 1.0.13 but mic still doens't work)
Card: Sound Fusion CS46xx
Chip: Cirrus Logic CS4297 rev 3
lsmod:

CODE

snd_pcm_oss            25376  0
snd_mixer_oss          10752  2 snd_pcm_oss

Skype 1.3.0.53 (Qt dynamic)

It's running on hp Vectra VL P3-450, 128 and I'm using headphones. I want use that computer only for home-skypeout (full replacement telephone, not yet skypein) - and for using firefox/thunderbird.

PS. Some time ago on that computer was windows xp, and everything worked fine.

ok, make sure that you have loaded the proper sound driver in the first place, and then try to record something that uses ALSA as the sound server.

deltatux

ok, make sure that you have loaded the proper sound driver in the first place, and then try to record something that uses ALSA as the sound server.

deltatux

I am having a similar problem on my thinkpad A20m that has with
similar hardware.

CODE

$lspci -v
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A20m
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at f4100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

Looks like all the modules are loaded:

CODE

$lsmod | grep snd
snd_cs46xx             89416  0
gameport               14984  2 snd_cs46xx
snd_rawmidi            25248  1 snd_cs46xx
snd_seq_device          8780  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec        102496  1 snd_cs46xx
snd_ac97_bus            2368  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            46368  0
snd_mixer_oss          19200  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                81160  3 snd_cs46xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              23748  1 snd_pcm
snd                    54976  8 snd_cs46xx,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               9952  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         11272  2 snd_cs46xx,snd_pcm

And recording from mic works just fine.

CODE

$arecord -f cd -D hw:0,0 -d 20 test.wav

With these capture settings in alsamixer


But in skype I get nothing. I am using skype version 1.3.0.53-1 with
alsa 1.0.13-1 in debian with kernel 2.6.18.

Could someone help us figure this out. Thanks.

Attached thumbnail(s)

 

I tried record with some X-apps and it does every time hangs.
When I try to record with arecord I got same result.

I tried also

CODE

cp /dev/dsp test.wav

(after some [s] press Ctrl+C
and try to playback:

cp test.wav /dev/dsp

I doesn't hang there, but I can't hear recorded voice (because it probably doesn't record)

See here: here
Some one posted something about full-duplex - where can I change that?

Some logs in attachments
Any ideas?

Edit1:
Added /etc/asound.state

This post has been edited by Kazek72: Tue Nov 14 2006, 15:15

Attached File(s)

 lsmod.txt ( 1.47K ) Number of downloads: 634
 lspci.txt ( 2.32K ) Number of downloads: 593
 ps.txt ( 2.3K ) Number of downloads: 632
 dmesg.txt ( 10.73K ) Number of downloads: 695
 syslog.txt ( 5.19K ) Number of downloads: 612
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I'm using Gentoo (just switched from windows) and am using alsamixer version v1.0.13. Also, just upgraded Skype to version 1.3.0.53. I tried to follow your(Rockhound) guide but I can't have Capture select Captur. I can have the the mic column do it.

I also tried following the Skype help site.

The other party can't hear me. I can hear him fine.

I'm disappointed that Skype doesn't support ALSA natively.

Anyway, if you can help me I'll be really grateful. Thank you!!!

I have Skype 1.3.0.53 installed under SuSE 10.1. I followed all posts in this discussion and still have the problem of the mic quitting after a few minutes using ALSA. I can make a few calls with no problems, however, if I let Skype "sit" for a few minutes the mic quits working, even when I call the Skype Test number. I switched to OSS and have no problems at all - works great. This is driving me buggy as I can't see why letting Skype "sit" would cause the mic to quit working in skype. I must add that the mic works normally in all other apps. Skype is usable for me now, however, I sure would like to use ALSA for its benefits. All in all, I think the developers are doing an awesome job in trying to get this to work with all flavors of Linux!

Hi,

My mic doesn't work under skype-linux Settings seems to be ok.. alsamixer: CAPTUR on MIC and CAPUTRE (set to 100%) are set, In skype auido I've selected ALSA (I've got one sound on-board card) - I tried also on OSS.
I tried setting also Mic +20db boost.
My distro had ALSA 1.0.11, I've updated to 1.0.13 but stil nobody can hear me (on SkypeOut too).
Also I changed <AGC>0</AGC> in skype settings (shared.xml)

When I'm calling to echo123, after recording 10s message I hear beep, ~0,5s break (now I should hear my message), and again beep, on another computer (dell gx150, p3-1ghz, 384) with same distro/skype/settings, between that two beeps I hear my recorded message.(not ~0,5s beep)

When I set mic on in output, then I can hear myself, so microphone works fine, and linux settings seems to be set ok.

What else shoud I check?
Distro: Zenwalk 3.0
Kernel: Linux-2.6.18.1
X11: XFCE-4.3.99.2
ALSA: 1.0.11 (I've upgraded to 1.0.13 but mic still doens't work)
Card: Sound Fusion CS46xx
Chip: Cirrus Logic CS4297 rev 3
lsmod:

CODE

snd_pcm_oss            25376  0
snd_mixer_oss          10752  2 snd_pcm_oss

Skype 1.3.0.53 (Qt dynamic)

It's running on hp Vectra VL P3-450, 128 and I'm using headphones. I want use that computer only for home-skypeout (full replacement telephone, not yet skypein) - and for using firefox/thunderbird.

PS. Some time ago on that computer was windows xp, and everything worked fine.

Same problem here
Everthy works with the mic, alsa, the machine..., but skype (not well programed)

I think that for Linux, it is high time they release it in open source because it s since 1.5 year there is not much change in Skype Linux compared to Windows. Linux users had to wait one year for kind of having the USB microphones working with ALSA. Let s wait now 6months-1 year for a coming releasing correcting the bugs with ALSA and non working usb mic. Then, next 1 year for a buggy release with Webcam. Then, again 1 year for havign a corrected version of the skype with webcam, and finally maybe having skype with sound plus webcam both working.
Or Maybe, ... Skype workign, is it for the next generation ?

(I am sorry, but I am not totally wrong too, its quite slow the skype linux developments)
(sorry)
---
Ubuntu

This post has been edited by patrick295767: Sat Nov 18 2006, 22:45

Hello, I just came by to ask if there is a way to record my mic and computer sounds at the same time. For some reason, whenever I use a recording program, there are 2 differerent files being made. They are named "In" and the other is "Out". I am using the MX skype recorder currently (only recorder that does not echo to my friends when I record) and I am just wondering if there is a solution sto fusing them. Thanks in advance.

I am running skype on Ubuntu 6.10 and I have the same problem as many others, I believe.

I can hear people fine when I call, but they cannot here me (I am using a Dell latitude D810, and can dual boot Ubuntu/ Windows XP - skype works fine under Windows XP; I am using the latest skype for Linux and I have checked theat my microphone is enabled, and I have tried calling echo123 and found that my msg is not recorded). I have hunted around the skype and ubuntu forums but not found a solution to this problem, which is driving me nuts - I have to reboot into windows, which I rarely use, if I need call with skype, or receive calls...!).

With grateful thanks to anybody who can help!

A little progress!

A had to enable Captur on ADC (also on mic, capture) in alsamixer (this is reqired with CS46xx soundcards), and with that command (most important is -Dhw:0,0)

arecord -v -v -Dhw:0,0 -f cd test.wav

recording works fine (I can playback it by aplay test.wav). But now how can I 'make' it (-Dhw:0,0) with skype?

But without -Dhw:0,0 (and ADC) volume meter hands, and it doesn't record.

There was some usefull hint:
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2076



EDIT: Solved!

I had to change driver configuration in ALSA-lib and recompile it
edit file form alsa-lib-1.0.13 sources -> ./src/conf/cards/CS46xx.conf

CODE

    capture.pcm {
        type plug
        slave.pcm {
            @func concat
- strings [ "dsnoop:" $CARD ]     <- delete this line
+ strings [ "hw:" $CARD ]            <- add this line
        }
    }

Recompile and install:

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./configure
make
make install

This post has been edited by Kazek72: Tue Nov 21 2006, 20:23

Another reason for this problem can come from 2 installed soundcards. I have onboard sound and a Creative Soundblaster Live. This causes the effects of the mixer settings to behave arbitrarily.

If your mic is connected to your PCI card: Disable onbard sound in BIOS, enable and adjust mic as stated in the posts above, enable onboard sound and dont touch the mixer settings except the sliders.

HTH