Re: skype

Hi, John:

Darn. No lspci and no lsmod. Oh, well.
Perhaps you need to find a Fedora Core list server. :-|
Does the microphone work otherwise? On another computer?
Can you hear a scratchy noise from the speakers when you
plug-in/out the microphone connector into the sound card?
Can you hear others when using SKYPE?
(They just cannot hear you?)'

Regards, Chuck


>>There is no squeal when I place the mic close to
>>the speaker.
>>
>>Thanks guys,
>>
>>John.
>>
>>
>
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skype

Hello Everyone,

dmesg | grep -i sound ............gives no reply.
dmesg | grep -i sound
application mixer_applet2 uses obsolete OSS audio interface
application firefox-bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface


I bring up volume control by right clicking on the speaker icon and
selecting 'Open Volume Control'. Everything is set to max including
LOADS of things I don't understand like various PCM's, EMU10K1 PCM 1 to
32, EMU10K1 PCM Send 1 to 32. If I mess with EMU10K1 PCM Send Routing 1
it results in silence from either 1 or both speakers so I leave well
alone but the other 31 are fine. Sorry if I'm giving useless
information but I don't know enough to distinguish. None of them are
muted. I also have every channel turned up in alsamixer, so I think
that's a yes to the question about whether I can invoke alsamixer.

[root'at'localhost /]# lsmod | grep snd
bash: lsmod: command not found
[root'at'localhost /]# lspci -v | grep -A 5 audio
bash: lspci: command not found


I looked for 'modules.conf' in /etc/ but could not find. Using locate I
got these results:

/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/mapping-modules.conf
/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/ssl-modules.conf
/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf


I have man arecord. There is no squeal when I place the mic close to
the speaker.

Thanks guys,

John.


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Re: skype

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:22 +0100, John Woodrow wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> dmesg | grep -i sound ............gives no reply.
> dmesg | grep -i sound*
> application mixer_applet2 uses obsolete OSS audio interface
> application firefox-bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface
>
>
> I bring up volume control by right clicking on the speaker icon and
> selecting 'Open Volume Control'. Everything is set to max including
> LOADS of things I don't understand like various PCM's, EMU10K1 PCM 1 to
> 32, EMU10K1 PCM Send 1 to 32. If I mess with EMU10K1 PCM Send Routing 1
> it results in silence from either 1 or both speakers so I leave well
> alone but the other 31 are fine. Sorry if I'm giving useless
> information but I don't know enough to distinguish. None of them are
> muted. I also have every channel turned up in alsamixer, so I think
> that's a yes to the question about whether I can invoke alsamixer.
>
> [root'at'localhost /]# lsmod | grep snd
> bash: lsmod: command not found
> [root'at'localhost /]# lspci -v | grep -A 5 audio
> bash: lspci: command not found
>
>
> I looked for 'modules.conf' in /etc/ but could not find. Using locate I
> got these results:
>
> /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/mapping-modules.conf
> /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/ssl-modules.conf
> /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf
>
>
> I have man arecord. There is no squeal when I place the mic close to
> the speaker.
>
> Thanks guys,
>
> John.
>

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*I'm sorry, I made a mistake, the fourth line of the above text should
read 'dmesg | grep -i audio'

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Re: skype

The mic works fine with a windows system. There is no scratchy noise
when I plug the mic in. I can hear other people when I use Skype but
they can not hear me.

Thanks for your time,

John

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Re: skype

John Woodrow wrote:

>The mic works fine with a windows system. There is no scratchy noise
>when I plug the mic in. I can hear other people when I use Skype but
>they can not hear me.
>
>Thanks for your time,
>
>John
>
>
Hi, John:

Good. Then there is soemthing errant in the configuration.
What, I don't know.
:-|
Chuck


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Re: skype

chuck wrote:
> John Woodrow wrote:
>
>> The mic works fine with a windows system. There is no scratchy noise
>> when I plug the mic in. I can hear other people when I use Skype but
>> they can not hear me.
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
> Hi, John:
>
> Good. Then there is soemthing errant in the configuration.
> What, I don't know.
> :-|
> Chuck

If I've followed this discussion correctly so far, indications are that
the hardware itself is okay, but that either Skype or kernel sound is
misconfigured.

Since the mike itself functions with a different system, the next
question is whether the sound hardware is properly configured in Linux.
I don't recall that you've told us the details of either hardware or
software. What sound card (or chipset, if it's onboard the mobo) is
involved (what does "lspci -v" tell you about it)? What distro and
kernel are you using ("uname -a") and are you using OSS or ALSA sound?
If you use modules for sound, what does "lsmod" report about them? (You
will want to run both lsmod and lspci as root, BTW.)

Does the card work properly when recording through both the line and the
mike inputs? (Try recording with gramofile, or your recording program of
choice. Be sure to use either rexima (OSS) or alsasound (ALSA) to set
the appropriate recording source.)

I've had mobos (using some VIA chipset) on which the sound *seemed* to
work using OSS with 2.4.x kernels, but on which I actually could only
play back, not record, until I switched to ALSA. If you don't *know*
that sound *input* works independent of Skype, I really think you should
confirm that it does before you go too far down the road of
Skype-specific troubleshooting.

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Re: skype

Hi John,

On 3/22/06, John Woodrow wrote:
[...]
>
> [root'at'localhost /]# lsmod | grep snd
> bash: lsmod: command not found
> [root'at'localhost /]# lspci -v | grep -A 5 audio
> bash: lspci: command not found
[...]

Try

$ which lsmod lspci

It should tell you that lsmod and lspci live in /sbin. So Fedora users
by default have to give the full path:

$ /sbin/lspci
$ /sbin/lsmod

HTH,

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