On Friday, Apr 20th 2007 at 09:50 -0400, quoth Ric Moore: =>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 How do you do that? -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net
