<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:27 PM, John Lee <<a href="mailto:john.lee5455@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.lee5455@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi I am pretty new to Xubuntu having only started using it in the last day or so I have successfully set everything up but have a problem with my microphone in skype, it keeps telling me i have pulse audio server (local) running and to change my settings to open the pulse audio volume control, no way of altering settings in that, or my desktop manager audio settings which just opens the pulse audio settings. where am I going wrong and have I missed something in set up? I am running an Acer Aspire one 10.1" netbook with an intel atom processor, which was running windows 7 starter. many thanks for any assistance John Lee -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> Hi! are you running the latest skype 4 (which came out yesterday)? If not, please uninstall the current one and try the new one from skype's site. It's supposed to have fixed many of it's bugs.