On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote: > How to configure alsamixer and or XFCE4 to get playback from my > motherboard card and input sound from USB? > > I'm trying to configure skype for input sound from USB cam abut playback > from my sound card on motherboard. > At the moment the only option I have is "pulse audio". > > -- > Joseph > > What's the output of 'equery -q u skype'?
Run the alsamiser command line shown below on your card ID, and make sure you don't have anything muted there. alsamixer -c 0 # '-c' sound card ID. You can find the correct IDs by running 'aplay -l', which comes from media-sound/alsa-utils.