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 --
