No mic with Skype on netbook

[Paolo Galtieri]

On 02/08/11 18:20, Wade Hampton wrote:
> I have a netbook with Fedora 14 + updates, pluseaudio enabled
> by default. This is on a netbook, Gateway LT2104u (really an ASUS AFIK).
> I am using the internal mic and skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586. Audio out,
> video, etc. all work fine.
>
> With no changes to modprobe.d/dist-alsa.conf, the following works:
> arecord -c1 -Dplughw:0,0 -f cd -vv /dev/null
> Mic works fine on audacity, even full-duplex.
>
> Skype only shows pulseaudio as an option for mic.  Others
> seem to have the same problem....
>
> Alsa/Pulse info:
> # cat /proc/asound/version
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
> # cat /proc/asound/modules
> 0 snd_hda_intel
> # cat /proc/asound/devices
> 2: : timer
> 3: : sequencer
> 4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
> 5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
> 6: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
> 7: [ 0] : control
> # cat /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
> HDA Intel at 0x58200000 irq 44
> # cat /proc/asound/card?/codec#* | grep Codec
> Codec: Realtek ALC272X
>
> Any help would be most appreciated.
>
I had the same problem with skype.  I fixed the problem by going into 
System->Preferences->Sound (Gnome), select Input and change the 
microphone setting to microphone 2.

Paolo