[SOLVED] Skype no microphone

zoroid · #1 19th June 2012, 03:38 AM

FIXED Skype MICROPHONE with

yum install pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-libs pulseaudio-libs-glib2 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf xmms-pulse pulseaudio-module-gconf wine-pulseaudio xine-lib-pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pulseaudio-module-bluetooth gst-mixer padevchooser paman paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter

then in skype went to OPTIONS then SOUND DEVICES then open pulseaudo volume control set the mikes to rear mikes and set the volume on the webcam a logitec device and it now recording works!!!!!
Boy wot a saga
Zoroid[COLOR="Silver"]

Fixed on my machine as below
Hope it works for others
Cheers
Zoroid

Hi, using Fedora 17 KDE 32 bit on intel core duo 3.0 ghz nvidia and asus board 4g ddr3.

skype installed OK but refused to find my rear mike, and no voice at all.
I note in Kmix there are no capture devices at all and no sign of microphone settings.
Skype normally configures this but no luck.at all.
I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling pulseaudio but no joy either.

Fedora is most reluctant to accept my password requiring 30 seconds or more to eventually proceed.

Multimedia is difficult and Kaffeine will not play at all saying----- " Cannot find input plugin for MRL "dvd:///dev/sr0"
despite having libdvdcss2 and w32codecs. and No package videodvd available. so kaput.

Took Fedora KDE for a spin as I dislike Gnome 3, and find it more difficult than Debian KDE so far.

But guess we are a work in progress.

Regards

Zoroid

jbuckley2004 · #2 19th June 2012, 05:17 AM

Zoroid, I had a similar problem that I think I solved.
First, I had to go to system settings/multimedia to change my input from front to rear mic.

Then, in Skype, I had to go to options/sound devices and change the microphone setting (it was under phonon for me; it may be different for you).

Now, I'm not sure why, because it was set to "default" and the default device used to be the correct one. Yesterday I had to go through the entire list before I discovered the correct one. After that I was able to make a test call and hear my own voice back.

But I'm not satisfied that the setting is really correct. The quality was not as I remember. Oh, yes, I had to go to kmix and up the volume level there too for the capture device, and like you, I was surprised to see only the two entries instead of the dozen or so I used to see in F14, F15 and F16.

The 30 second delay in logging in seems to be a new (and unrelated) problem. That one just showed up for me yesterday also.

zoroid · #3 19th June 2012, 12:58 PM

Certainly this is quite a long standing problem in Fedora,
and the short half life of releases perhaps mitigate against any fix soon.
Chris Smart of Koroora in Oz fixed it before perhaps better ask him how he did it as it worked on this same machine.

The old posts below did not fix the Fedora 17 Skype microphone issue either but thanx for trying.

pulseaudio-libs libv4l were present but-----

One of the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio as described in one old post was missing but my hopes were dashed as this failed after install also.
Best of luck
zoroid

smr54 · #4 19th June 2012, 02:03 PM

There's one solution that worked for me in an OLD Ubuntu install, and I think it's worked once or twice here, but not sure.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...97&postcount=9

It's also failed to help other people, but worth trying.

zoroid · #5 20th June 2012, 12:52 PM

Hi, sm54
no such package sorry to say
thanx for trying
growing tired of this quest
think fedora 17 can't pick up the hardware
best
zoroid

Quote:

Originally Posted by smr54

There's one solution that worked for me in an OLD Ubuntu install, and I think it's worked once or twice here, but not sure.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...97&postcount=9

It's also failed to help other people, but worth trying.

zoroid · #6 25th June 2012, 10:45 AM

Oh well this mike problem in Skype
will most likely infect Fedora 18 rawhide as well unfortunately.
Perhaps Redhat has it too.
I thought ALSA might be under pulseaudio, but there does not appear to be an ALSA package to be had.
Ho Hum
Zoroid

---------- Post added at 07:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:08 PM ----------

FIXED Skype MICROPHONE with

yum install pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-libs pulseaudio-libs-glib2 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf xmms-pulse pulseaudio-module-gconf wine-pulseaudio xine-lib-pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pulseaudio-module-bluetooth gst-mixer padevchooser paman paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter

then in skype went to OPTIONS then SOUND DEVICES then open pulseaudo volume control set the mikes to rear mikes and set the volume on the webcam a logitec device and it now recording works!!!!!
Boy wot a saga
Zoroid[COLOR="Silver"]

---------- Post added at 07:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:33 PM ----------

---------- Post added at 07:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:39 PM ----------

Fixed on my machine as below
Hope it works for others
Cheers
Zoroid

smr54 · #7 25th June 2012, 02:37 PM

Glad that you got it fixed. As the originator of the thread, you can mark it SOLVED if you want, by clicking on the thread tools link at the top.
I'm sure this will help others as time goes on.

zoroid · #8 26th June 2012, 01:52 AM

Hope it works for others
Cheers
zoroid

Quote:

Originally Posted by smr54

Glad that you got it fixed. As the originator of the thread, you can mark it SOLVED if you want, by clicking on the thread tools link at the top.
I'm sure this will help others as time goes on.

bonar · #9 29th June 2012, 09:32 PM

mine still cannot work with mic..
already done this :-

Quote:

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yum install pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-libs pulseaudio-libs-glib2 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf xmms-pulse pulseaudio-module-gconf wine-pulseaudio xine-lib-pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pulseaudio-module-bluetooth gst-mixer padevchooser paman paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter

The Result :-

Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Setting up Install Process
Package pulseaudio-0.9.21-7.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
Package alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.24-2.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
Package pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.21-7.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
Package pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-7.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
Package pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-7.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
Package pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.21-7.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
Package pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.21-7.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
Package xmms-pulse-0.9.4-8.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version
Package pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-7.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
Package wine-pulseaudio-1.3.24-1.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
Package xine-lib-1.1.19-2.fc14.2.i686 already installed and latest version
Package pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-7.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
Package pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.21-7.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version
No package gst-mixer available.
Package padevchooser-0.9.4-0.11.svn20070925.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version
Package paman-0.9.4-4.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version
Package paprefs-0.9.9-6.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version
Package pavucontrol-0.9.10-1.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version
Package pavumeter-0.9.3-4.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

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I can't select other than the pulseaudio server (local)..
Fedora 14..

bonar · #10 29th June 2012, 11:15 PM

I solved it using this thread -> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...=1#post1588587

Quote:

amixer -c 0 set 'Input Source' 'Digital Mic'
amixer -c 0 set 'Digital Mic' 20dB

thanks..

mine's sound even better with -> amixer -c 0 set 'Digital Mic' 10dB

bonar · #11 3rd July 2012, 07:04 PM

For Fedora 15 -> Laptop Alienware M17 R3

put this line under modprobe :-

vi /etc/modprobe.d/dist.conf

Quote:

options snd-hda-intel model=auto
options snd-hda-intel power_save=0
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-oss

then there are new amixer scontrols named 'Internal Mic'

amixer -c1 scontrols

Quote:

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Simple mixer control 'Mic Jack Mode',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Playback Source',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Playback Source',1
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',2
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',3
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Simple mixer control 'Digital',0
Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic',0