Skype doesn't work well with alsa and thus KDE. I use this little wrapper to deal with that successfully:
http://195.38.3.142:6502/skype/ Until skype for linux's sound is rewritten to be alsa compliant it will always be problematical. wcn Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > Michael Walters wrote: > > >> Hello All, >> >> Since I noticed that when ALSA shuts down the microphone stops working, >> I presume that Skype help was right that the microphone does not work in >> Skype because Skype does not support ALSA drives natively and I need to >> emulate OSS. >> >> So as root I did a modprobe snd-pcm-oss and got no error messages. I >> also did a modprobe snd-mixer-oss and got no error messages. But I still >> could not get either Skype echo123 or Audacity to work with the mic to >> record my voice, even though I can hear myself in my head set. >> >> Any suggestions on how to configure skype? Audacity configuration would >> be nice to. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Michael Walters >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> >> >> > This may be off-topic but I just notice something disconcerting: I > signed in on one box with my regular usename/pass onto skype...then I > did the same on another box and...NOTHING. Not a warning, or a hint that > "someone" had already signed in with my username/pass...As far as I can > tell, someone could be using your username/pass and you would not havea > clue... > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
