No microhone sort of fixed in Kubuntu 11.04 32 bit

Lorenzo Bettini lorenzo.bettini at gmail.com
Tue May 24 10:00:47 UTC 2011


On 05/22/2011 05:20 AM, Rod Lovett wrote:
> I could not use Skype due to no microphone being picked up in Kubuntu/
> ubuntu natty 11.04 32bit.
> It automagically did so in Meerkat and Lucid.
> No automagic for natty, I had to apt-get remove pulseaudio then play
> with ALSA settings on reboot which were not configured properly.
> Microphones were all switched off as was line and boosters for mikes.
> Then I did apt-get install pulseaudio and microphone worked.
>
> The only problem is microphone is on all the time skype or not.
> So where did the automagic stuff go I wonder?
> Regards

I managed to solve this issue using pavucontrol.

I blogged about that: 
http://tronprog.blogspot.com/2011/05/making-microphone-work-in-kubuntu-natty.html

hope this helps

Lorenzo

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