Skype - No sound from microphone

[Paolo Galtieri]

On 01/30/11 11:16, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> On 30/01/2011 07:52 μμ, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>
>>   What devices are selected, and what are available for the microphone,
>>   speakers and ringing options?
>
> Well after thinking of it , i think that here is the problem .
> Skype only gives me the option of PulseAudio server , so
> i have it for microphone , speakers and ringing options ..
>
>
>>   Also, try to use some audio editing app like audacity to record your
>>   voice. This just checks whether the problem lies with skype or with
>>   your system.
>
> 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 .
>
>
>
>
>>>  From what you are saying, everything appears to be in order, except
>>> for>  microphone. Some other things to verify:
>>
>>   - is that the only microphone you have?
>
> The only microphone connected . There is a microphone input on my
> built-in sound card but there is nothing connected to it.
>
>   >- is that the one selected as a default recording device in pavucontrol? -
>
> Pavucontrol ?
>
> Am not sure about what u mean with pavucontrol , so i would have to
> improvise . The closest thing to that would be the PulseAudio Volume
> Control . Am unaware on how u select the default recording device
> but i have muted everything else , so i guess that will make it
> pretty much the default device .
>
>
>>   is it muted?
>
> Nope , it´s not muted . It was never so . I just muted everything else .
>
> - did you try to logout/login into skype (sometimes it helps)?
>
> Yes many . The problem is persistent . It survives even a machine reboot.
>
>> - did you try to turn on/off skype's option "allow skype to
> automatically adjust my
>>   mixer levels"?
>>
>
> Yes without luck either .
>
>
>
I had a similar problem with skype.  In my case when I went into 
System->Preferences->Sound (I'm using Gnome) it showed there were 2 
microphone devices.  When I changed the microphone device from the 
current setting to the other microphone device then skype worked.

Paolo