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Yes, I'm on a desktop. I am using a cheap little Creative mic that plugs into the back of my motherboard mic jack. I don't remember where I got it... it looks like this:theZoid wrote:You on a Desktop? Several of us laptop users can't use our mic's in Skype....video is fine though....
OK...makes sense...hardly any of us laptop users are able to use our built in mics....I guess a plug in mic would work, but jeez....cwgtex wrote:Yes, I'm on a desktop. I am using a cheap little Creative mic that plugs into the back of my motherboard mic jack. I don't remember where I got it... it looks like this:theZoid wrote:You on a Desktop? Several of us laptop users can't use our mic's in Skype....video is fine though....
I guess I need to get around to installing LMDE on my laptop so I test that out.
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#skype stuff
pcm.skype {
type asym
playback.pcm "skypeout"
capture.pcm "skypein"
}
pcm.skypein {
# Convert from 8-bit unsigned mono (default format set by aoss when
# /dev/dsp is opened) to 16-bit signed stereo (expected by dsnoop)
#
# We can't just use a "plug" plugin because although the open will
# succeed, the buffer sizes will be wrong and we'll hear no sound at
# all.
type route
slave {
pcm "skypedsnoop"
format S16_LE
}
ttable {
0 {0 0.5}
1 {0 0.5}
}
}
pcm.skypeout {
# Just pass this on to the system dmix
type plug
slave {
pcm "dmix"
}
}
pcm.skypedsnoop {
type dsnoop
ipc_key 1133
slave {
# "Magic" buffer values to get skype audio to work
# If these are not set, opening /dev/dsp succeeds but no sound
# will be heard. According to the alsa developers this is due
# to skype abusing the OSS API.
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_size 256
periods 16
buffer_size 16384
}
bindings {
0 0
}
}
how about arecord? Does it work?theZoid wrote:I created the above file....still no luck with built in mic, for anything...sound recorder, etc....those of us having problems are using Dell laptops it seems.
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arecord -q -Dhw:0,0 -f cd - | neroAacEnc -q .15 -ignorelength -if - -of ~/Recs/alsaRecs/`date +%Y-%m-%d_%T`_amic.m4a 1> /dev/null 2>&1
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# uname -a
Linux borg 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 18:02:11 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# aptitude show skype
Package: skype
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 2.2.0.35-1
Priority: extra
Section: non-free/net
Maintainer: Skype Technologies <info@skype.net>
Uncompressed Size: 29.4 M
Depends: lib32stdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21), lib32asound2 (> 1.0.14), ia32-libs, libc6-i386 (>= 2.7-1), lib32gcc1 (>=
1:4.1.1-21+ia32.libs.1.19), ia32-libs-gtk
Description: Skype
# apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk skype
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ia32-libs : Depends: lib32bz2-1.0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32asound2 (> 1.0.18) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32ncurses5 (>= 5.7+20100313) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32stdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32v4l-0 (>= 0.5.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32z1 (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg) but it is not going to be installed
PreDepends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.9-18) but it is not going to be installed
ia32-libs-gtk : Depends: lib32asound2 (> 1.0.18) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32stdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32z1 (>= 1:1.1.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.10) but it is not going to be installed
PreDepends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.9-18) but it is not going to be installed
skype : Depends: lib32stdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32asound2 (> 1.0.14) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.7-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21+ia32.libs.1.19) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
# apt-get install -f skype
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
skype : Depends: lib32stdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32asound2 (> 1.0.14) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ia32-libs but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.7-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21+ia32.libs.1.19) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ia32-libs-gtk but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
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# aptitude install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk libqt4-core libqt4-guiCode: Select all
# dpkg -i --force-architecture skype-debian_2.1.0.47-1_i386.debNow it's working properly, of course don't forget to remove mute from the microphone..Code: Select all
# chmod a-r /usr/lib32/libpulse*
And joutlan added:cwgtex wrote:Works perfectly. I just found out today they added video to the linux skype client. I thought it still wasn't available. I'm very happy, now I don't have to reboot to Vista when I need to use Skype. Now if only they would change video conference from a pay feature to a free feature.theZoid wrote:That's exactly what I did....have you tried to use your microphone in Skype? Does it work?cwgtex wrote: Using 64bit LMDE, I installed Skype from the Software Manager, and found out it wouldn't launch (as other here have mentioned). I went Synaptic and installed [ia32-libs-gtk]. I already had [ia32-libs] installed from something else, not sure what. It works perfect now.