Lucid and Skype (solved!!) - well almost

[Errol Sapir]

Do you have pulseaudio running perchance? There has been a long
> thread recently about trying to get it working with KDE.
>    
Michael I installed Pulseaudio. Nothing seemed to be muted but in the 
beginning it still didn't work with Skype. THEN........

> I just recently solved this problem by noticing that skype used PA.
> KMix showed than my mic was turned on, but when I ran pavucontrol it
> showed that PA had the mic muted.  Unmuting with pavucontrol made
> Skype work for me.
>
> Michael
>    
....I did the above configuration and I can now use my microphone with 
Skype =-O . Now all that remains is to try and get the webcam to work 
with Skype and I'm ok. By the way I had already downloaded PCLinuxOS and 
was planning to install it to see if that would solve my skype problem. 
I downloaded the KDE version and I still may try it out. But at least I 
can now (almost) fully use my favourite OS.
Thanks