Ok, I'm using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 with KDE4 and I've gone through all fixes I've found. But Skype still isn't picking up any sound from my mic. I can hear things just fine, and other programs (Audacity and KRec) find the mic and record sound from the mic. I've been messing with this for over seven hours and it's a bit of a haze for me on what I should or shouldn't add here. If you need me to clarify something, I'll be happy to answer tomorrow morning.

I have exactly the same problems. I'm running Mandriva spring 2008 on a Dell Inspiron 530 desktop. All my sound works fine, everything is configured fine. but, I have not got ANY outgoing audio in Skype. sOMEBODY pLEASE hELP mE!!!!

I had this problem with both Skype and Dell Video Chat (DVC). Also with sound recorder. With Skype, at least, I found that if I plugged in an external microphone, I could get sound in. Also, even with the external mike plugged in, the sound was very faint. I learned that the sound control settings panel that you can choose from double clicking the sound icon on the menu does not help much.

To fix, open a terminal window and enter sudo alsamixer; you will get a pretty GUI with the sound components shown. Navigate to each sound function with the horizontal arrow keys. Then, increase or decrease setting with the up/down arrow keys. In changing the settings, I experienced considerable audio feedback, that is, if the input microphone level or the speaker were set too high, there was a terrible squeal over the speakers. Note that there will be two inputs, the internal mike and the plugged-in mike.

HTH,

--Steve

I found a solution here:
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/12/05/fix...ant-microphone/

As far as I understood it right, in alsamixer you have unmute everything, check both "Mic" and "Capture" as "CAPTUR" (capture mode, arrows and space) and set "Mic" and "Mic Boos" volumes high. I think that you can do the same with kmix in KDE -- I just never tested checking both the microphone and the capture (the latter has a weird triangle icon in kmix/KDE4).

Same problem here. Using a Logitech headset w/ jack plugs. Mic is perfectly functional under Krecord. Sound playback works fine, both in Skype and other multimedia applications (Krecord, Amarok). But I can't get the mic to work in Skype.

I've already "unmuted" everything in alsamixer. I've set full duplex ON in the KDE control center. I've also tried the suggestion to run skype through artsdsp (cd /usr/bin ; artsdsp -m ./skype). Still no cigar.

Can anyone suggest further tests ?

TIA

Ph. A.

Might not be much help to you, but after having the same trouble with the front jack,
Then i tried out the mic jack on the back of my box. and that 54wor111111111111ks5222222222 grrr stupid cat.....
Any way, good luck

Hi Jason,

Actually Philippe etal were suffering from a mic issue with 2.0. There's another old thread that explains an ALSA config workaround.

You _may_ be able to select that front jack if it appears as a different input device under pulseaudio's volume control applet (e.g. assuming it's installed, via "pavucontrol &" in a terminal).

Hope your cat's feeling okay too