Skype solution

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Claude Jones wrote:

> On Fri December 29 2006 7:27 pm, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> I remember a relatively recent thread in which folks
>> complained about having trouble getting their microphones to
>> work in Skype with FC6, but I don't recall a definitive
>> solution being posted.  It took me quite a bit of fiddling,
>> but I finally got it.
>>
>>[...]
>>
>> Hope that info helps somebody.
>
> Matthew: At least one of those recent discussions had to do with
> Skype arbitrarily turning off settings after a call or two - I
> can't make out the pattern, though I'm sure there is one, but
> after using Skype, once, sometimes more than once but never more
> than a few times, I find the capture level turned back down to
> 0. Sometimes re-setting the level fixes it, sometimes not - when
> it doesn't work, I have to shut down Skype and restart it. It's
> become a pain. Today, I reinstalled vmplayer and fired up XP on
> this machine, and was surprised to find that Skype worked
> perfectly - that's an unfortunate state of affairs.
>
> If you continue to experience consistent behavior, and Skype
> continues to work each and every time with the approach you've
> taken above, please post back and let us know.
>
> To reprise - two problems, which have been discussed here and on
> the Skype forums:
> 1-Skype on Linux seems to have an issue with the soundcard
> settings, and they are occasionally reset to 0, especially the
> capture setting - turning the capture volume back up will
> sometimes solve the mic not working issue
> 2-Skype will work for a call or a few calls, and then the mic
> will stop working - sometimes it's just the level setting as
> described in 1, though sometimes, even though the level has been
> set back to 0 and then re-set to a correct record level, Skype
> will still not respond to mic input, and has to be restarted.

Yep, I reemember those threads, but there was also a thread about getting 
it to work at all, and that's the one I was addressing.

I'm not a frequent user right now, but I do need it, so I was glad to get 
it working at all.  I'll keep an eye out for these other issues and report 
back if I learn anything.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs