Skype microphone problem

[shadroth]

There are many threads about skype microphone problems but none of them seems to have been able to solve my own predicament. I have 11.10 installed on a Dell XPS 15 laptop. Sound and video work just fine, it's only the microphone whch isn't working. Skype detects that the inbuilt microphone is there, there is just no audio received. In the skype options window, the microphone is set to "PulseAudio server (local)". I have unchecked the "Allow Skype to automatically adjust my mixer levels". In alsamixer, I have increased Mic and Mic Boos to maximum levels. Anyone have any experience getting skype working properly on this hardware?

Thanks in advance!

[tomp01]

I had my USB microphone working on Skype with Kubuntu 11.10 and KDE Mint 12 but both have now stopped working, the usual solutions that you outline do not appear to work anymore. I also have Zorun OS 5.2 and that works fine.

[dequire]

By chance have either of you tried opening alsamixer in a terminal and ensuring that the line for the microphone is turned up and / or not muted? I had this same problem recently and on running

sudo alsamixer

I found my mic was turned down to zero. I turned it up and exited and it's been fine ever since. This was on 11.10.

[tomp01]

By chance have either of you tried opening alsamixer in a terminal and ensuring that the line for the microphone is turned up and / or not muted? I had this same problem recently and on running

sudo alsamixer

I found my mic was turned down to zero. I turned it up and exited and it's been fine ever since. This was on 11.10.

I've checked that already.

[shadroth]

By chance have either of you tried opening alsamixer in a terminal and ensuring that the line for the microphone is turned up and / or not muted? I had this same problem recently and on running

sudo alsamixer

I found my mic was turned down to zero. I turned it up and exited and it's been fine ever since. This was on 11.10.

As metioned in my original post, I specifically looked into that.

[eddieg538]

I had to go to system-settings then multimedia then phonon and move my camera up to the top of the list in video and it worked for skype.

[shadroth]

I still have not found a solution to this. My Card is "HDA Intel PCH" and chip is "Intel CougarPoint HDMI". I have searched through various forums, added all kinds of different lines to the end of alsa-base.conf, restarted my machine more times than I care to mention, and nothing has worked. Is there an alsa expert in the house?

[claydoh]

By chance have either of you tried opening alsamixer in a terminal and ensuring that the line for the microphone is turned up and / or not muted? I had this same problem recently and on running

sudo alsamixer

I found my mic was turned down to zero. I turned it up and exited and it's been fine ever since. This was on 11.10.

Watch out for using sudo for alsamixer, that is not necessary, you want to be able to modify the settings for the current user.