Skype no microphone Kubuntu 32 bit Meerkat now fixed!

[ElZorro]

Hi,
No answering posts so far,
but anyway now fixed it required removal of pulseaudio, a reboot and adjustment of the alsa controls ---digital needed the volume up from down and I also needed to use the "front microphone" and left "microphone" with volume down but on so no feedback probs, as "microphone" fed through the speakers. I also had to leave the settings left on "microphone" not "front microphone", and this was all more than a bit obscure.
Regardz
El Zorro 8)



using a gigabyte board with intel chipset, and intel sound, 3.0 core duo processor
Microphone works in alsa, giving speaker output but not in skype. Skype works perfectly well in ubuntu which uses pulseaudio.
Tried with pulseaudio, without pulseaudio, ticked capture channels
in alsa, racked up both mikes, but not a recorded peep in skype, only sound from speakers.
Skype works in aptosid KDE 32 after installing pulseaudio too.
Kubuntu is based on a snapshot of Debian Sid, so what is wrong I
wonder.
Something was a bit too obscure for me.
Regardz
El Zorro

[GreyGeek]

Re: Skype no microphone Kubuntu 32 bit Meerkat now fixed!

I've stopped recommending removal of Pulseaudio because when I attempted to remove it on my Meerkat beta install it wanted to remove the entire KDE desktop. So, has that behavior changed? When you marked Pulseaudio for removal did it want to remove the KDE desktop components?

[ElZorro]

Re: Skype no microphone Kubuntu 32 bit Meerkat now fixed!

Hi GreyGeek
No problems now at least in full proper Kubuntu Meerkat and it gives you a much more configurable alsa control panel with many control sliders. Pulseaudio does something invisible under the hood that stays after removal and allows you to configure alsa successfully even though the result does not appear to be totally logical, but fortunately it works.
Cheers
El Zorro

I've stopped recommending removal of Pulseaudio because when I attempted to remove it on my Meerkat beta install it wanted to remove the entire KDE desktop. So, has that behavior changed? When you marked Pulseaudio for removal did it want to remove the KDE desktop components?

[claydoh]

Re: Skype no microphone Kubuntu 32 bit Meerkat now fixed!

As a test on my old laptop, removing pulseaudio only removes pulseaudio, plus any PA applets installed. While installing PA (on my wife's lucid laptop) actually solved a microphone/usb-headset problem, it seems obvious that some people need it, while others solve their issues in it's removal.

At least we know that removing it is not going to produce a nightmare for KDE users

[ElZorro]

Re: Skype no microphone Kubuntu 32 bit Meerkat now fixed!

You are right claydoh, for instance rolling release aptosid kde 32 needed pulseaudio installed to make skype, which certain aptosid moderators love to hate, work. If I put this post there it might be deleted out of hand.

Then pulseaudio removal gave back a better control panel with alsa, yet the benefit persisted with skype mike still working, and so it was with Kubuntu meerkat 32 also, with no side effects so far, and a far better audio control panel.
so I guess machines behaviours vary a liitle in this mike area.
Regardz El Zorro 8)

As a test on my old laptop, removing pulseaudio only removes pulseaudio, plus any PA applets installed. While installing PA (on my wife's lucid laptop) actually solved a microphone/usb-headset problem, it seems obvious that some people need it, while others solve their issues in it's removal.

At least we know that removing it is not going to produce a nightmare for KDE users