Re: FC6 Skype Howto?

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On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 09:42 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 14:30 +0100, Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> > Update on this: I downloaded audacity and randomly flipped options on
> > that until I finally could see an input in the level meter and was
> > able to record/playback some voice.
> > 
> > I went back to skype (configured to use ALSA) and it works now. Even
> > after a reboot. So this is down to sound settings.
> 
> Yes, though the random twiddle approach doesn't really help you work out
> why, and how to repeat it.
> 
> > I cannot see any visible difference in the settings in  Preferences ->
> > Volume Control  applet (gnome-volume-control)  since it started to
> > work. So I'm guessing there is a whole lot more to sound configuration
> > that is covered in gnome-volume-control (?).
> 
> Probably, and the volume control panel will only show what you've
> configured it to show.  It would be possible to adjust sound parameters
> that *it* doesn't show, using something else.  You may want to play more
> with its preferences to display more doodahs to fiddle with, though I'd
> go for the obvious things, not the wierd sounding ones.
> 
> > However what I do have is an output from "amixer" from before and
> > after if someone would be kind enough to look at those (there are
> > differences).
> 
> Somebody probably can, so do post it.
> 
> > My observation: The gnome-volume-control is broken. It's either
> > buggy/not complete/too complex/not documented property.  I don't
> > understand most of the options in the sound config tool -- nor would
> > most people. Eg what does "InMux" mean?. 
> 
> I tend to agree.  Coming from an electronics background, I'd guess that
> might mean input multiplexer, but that's a wild guess.  It'd help if
> they'd not abbreviate things.

I think he needs to set his sound card to full-duplex. It's usually set
to half duplex. Ric

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