Skype - No sound from microphone

antonio montagnani antonio.montagnani at alice.it
Sun Jan 30 16:01:14 UTC 2011


Kostas Sfakiotakis ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 
30/01/2011 16:36:
> I have an issue with Skype .
>
> Although am able to hear sounds ( in a call i can hear the caller ) the
> caller
> can´t hear me . System wide i have sounds.
>
> The version of Skype am using is :
>
> skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586
>
> Now the odd thing is that if i go to PulseAudio Volume Control under
> Multimedia
> under the Recording devices i can "see" the microphone and the system
> can hear
> me speaking since the volume increases and decreases accordingly .
> Theoretically
> at least that should mean that the microphone is actually being detected
> and the
> proper modules have been loaded. One last thing that might be relevant
> is that i
> don´t actually own a seperate microphone but it´s build in my Logitech
> Web Camera.
> The thing is that Skype actually knows about the Web Camera since if i
> test it under
> the video controls i can see my face . If i make the sound tests i can
> hear the sound
> if i make the test call i can hear the test person speaking but i can´t
> hear my voice
> . I have looked in the net but i don´t want to mess anything else ,
> since everywhere
> else the sound is working ( admitted it´s the playback sound and not the
> recording thing
> that am hearing ) . I would be glad to try even any other application
> that speaks
> the Skype protocol if that thing would make things easier without
> messing up anything .

I had to add these lines in /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf in order to have 
mike working


alias snd-card-2 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=2
options snd-card-2 index=2
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