Skype - No sound from microphone

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 20:16 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:

> Using audacity for example . At first i could here no sound . But then
> when i went to preferences and chose the usb camera , things worked
> correctly . So i guess we can assume that the system itself is aware
> of the microphone on the camera .

What kind of computer is this?  The models I'm aware of that have an
integrated camera-microphone device are new Dell laptops.  These need an
option passed to the sound device's kernel module.  My Latitude E6410
needs /etc/modprobe.d/snd_hda_intel.conf containing

        options snd_hda_intel model=dell-s14

Other models need other model= values.  See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=616197.



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                Matthew Saltzman

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