On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:23:32 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > But one gotcha is how the microphone channel is handled in the various > mixers linux has available. > > What is desired is to have the microphone's controlling buttons set to > enable the 'capture' function, but not to enable its output to the mixer. > If you output to the mixer only, then you can hear yourself, but no one > else can. [...] I think this was the problem I ran into last time I tried skype, but I never knew what it was! thanks for the info :) -Thufir