Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 12:42, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> I'm trying to get skype set up on my new laptop and I've run into a
> problem the sound card (Intel HDA) is setup and working (with mplayer
> and amarok) I've installed skype and the interface is working.  There
> nothing wrong with the headset (it works on my old laptop). At first
> I kept getting "problem with sound device" error but I've solved that
> but the microphone doesn't appear to be working.  When I make a test
> call I can hear the skype lady but I can't here my message when they
> try to play it back
> I've checked the alsa mixer and the microphone is set to capture and
> the volume up.  I don't know what I'm missing.  Sofar I havn't turned
> up anything in the wiki or forums.
> Has anybody got skype woking with this soundcard.  Perhaps you could
> post your .asoundrc for me to have a look

Skype is easy to set up, IF you have alsa working right...

Using alsamixer, turn the mic vol right up, can you hear your own voice 
in the headset? Make sure you have set the correct mic device, 
select "Mic Boost" if it's there. Last resort is to deselect other 
channels one by one and see if one of them activates the mic. I once 
had a chipset where the mic wouldn't work if a certain IEC958 feature 
was on. Until you hear your own voice in the speaker it will never work

Then in skype make sure you select the alsa/oss option as appropriate, 
it's somewhere in the Options. Skype uses alsa, make sure you do have 
full support in the kernel

alan
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