microphone and skype

[Mark Greenwood]

On Sunday 10 Jan 2010 21:13:51 Kılıç Köken wrote:
> 2010/1/10 Errol Sapir <errol at tzora.co.il>
> 
> > I have a nvidia ck804 sound card in my computer. I can hear and play
> > anything, music from CD's (DVD's), from internet, youtube and I hear
> > skype. I cannot get the microphone to be heard when using skype. When
> > looking at the skype configuration I see that the sound devices in skype
> > are all pulseaudio server (local). This applies to microphone, speakers
> > and ringing. As I said I do hear the other party in skype, but they
> > cannot hear me.
> > I don't know if I am looking in  how to change the configuration in
> > skype to have it recognize my nvidia card or even if that is the way I
> > should be solving the problem.
> > By the way in my dual booted computer, when using Windows, skype works
> > perfectly.
> > Help would be appreciated.
> > Errol
> >
> 
> The culprit is pulseaudio.
> I used to have the same problem. I don't know if there's a solution for this
> problem with pulseaudio.
> 
> But I removed pulseaudio, and my skype is normal now.
> 
> Klich.
> 
Don't use pulseaudio with skype, it's buggy as hell. Set the microphone to one of the other options. You may have to use trial and error to find out which one works. For playback I used to find that pulseaudio would work but only for half an hour or so, so I did the same to that as well. If you don't need pulseaudio for anything else, your best bet is to remove it.

Mark