[SOL]Mint 13 Skype mic works only after rec. in another soft

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[SOL]Mint 13 Skype mic works only after rec. in another soft

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Same thing with Skype 2 or 4 (64-bit). Skype recognizes Pulse audio as the device.Test call records silence, but after I record something in Audacity with Pulse audio as the rec. device, Skype also starts to understand the microphone! What gives? How can I skip this annoying trick to get Skype mic working?
The machine is HP dc7600.
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Re: Mint 13 - Skype mic works only after rec. in another pro

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One person told me he does not have Pulse audio, only ALSA yet Skype works for him just fine. Any ideas on what I should do?
This HP machine used to have Opensuse and it also required some mic toggling to get Skype working (Pulse audio).
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Re: Mint 13 - Skype mic works only after rec. in another pro

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Try running "pavucontrol" while using skype - check the Recording tab to see what it's doing. Any fixes done here *should* be automagically saved.
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Re: Mint 13 - Skype mic works only after rec. in another pro

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Flemur wrote:Try running "pavucontrol" while using skype - check the Recording tab to see what it's doing. Any fixes done here *should* be automagically saved.
I didn't have pavucontrol so did "apt-get install pavucontrol"
But after trying to launch, I get this pop up:
Fatal Error: Unable to connect to PulseAudio: OK

In the terminal it says
(pavucontrol:2581): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_main_quit: assertion `main_loops != NULL' failed
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Re: [SOL]Mint 13 Skype mic works only after rec. in another

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Was trying to run pavucontrol as root. Really useful error message :D But now everything works, thanks Flemur.
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