but i never hear the phone when it rings. If i use the usb headset for everything, calls work. it seems though, that skype doesn't want to see them and therefore. if i go to my linux mint sound preferences, in the hardware tab i can see both the internal audio (desktop speakers) and my usb headset. Youngdaddytc wrote:is there a way to separate the speaker that rings from the speaker you hear when you talk to someone? i have a usb phone, but in the skype options all i get is pulseaudio server for everything, with no other choice. If fiddling doesn't produce any results, google is your friend, use the make and model of your webcam along with "Ubuntu Maverick" and hope to find a forum where someone has solved your specific hardware issue. Usually nothing needs to be changed here and the test works fine. in that dialog, the second tab 'video', test the "Default Input", make sure the "Device" is your webcam, the "Plugin" usually defaults to "Video for Linux 2 (v4l2)" which is the most common driver base for most webcams. Hit Alt and F2, in the dialog type "gstreamer-properties". To check if your webcam works do the following. (LMDE users Only, you must run "sudo alsactl store", to save the settings, most cases it will reboot fine, for some reason on rare machines "sudo alsactl restore" at each boot is needed to bring settings back) Sometimes you need to find 'capture', mic and mic booste, and raise their volumes and some cases un-mute them. Note! in a terminal alsamixer, is a last resort. To get your sound device information, open a terminal and type the following in. If there is still a problem, then it's past the purview of this tutorial, suggestion is to google your sound device with the words "Skype Ubuntu Maverick" and hope to find a forum where someone has solved your specific hardware issue. If you got your speakers and mic to work in the previous steps, then these should work. Here, the first three settings should all be "PulseAudio server (local). Open Skype, click the little blue icon bottom left corner, choose 'Options', then choose "Sound Devices" in the Options dialog. If sound is too soft or too loud and distorted, go back to the 'volume preferences' Input tab and change the input volume to suite, Under normal circumstances the marker 'Unamplified' is the optimum, past that your voice becomes distorted. Make a short recording testing the mic, play back. This application has had a few issues over time and to be on the safe side I recommend that you use "Record as: Voice, Lossless (.wav type)" to make sure it's not the app that is the problem. To verify and test sound input, go to mint menu -> Sound & Video -> "Sound Recorder". If you can not get the 'input' indicator to work, then it's beyond this tutorial, but trying step 3 won't hurt, and maybe it will work with one of the drivers. Check the dropdown box and see if there is another "Analog Surround 5.1 Output" most likely with "+ Analog Stereo Input", try that one, and go test the sound input again, sound output as well to be safe. If neither work, go to the hardware tab, as in the above 'output' guide, check the driver, In theory, you should have sound output working first, so will have something like "Analog Surround 5.1 Output + Digital Stereo (IEC958) input", speakers work, but Microphone doesn't. Talk to the microphone, if the input level indicator shows that it's working, move to step 3 For the 'Connector' choose which microphone you think is correct Microphone 1 or 2. In the 'hardware' tab, down the bottom is a dropdown box, select each driver, one at a time and play sound as the "Test Button" doesn't work so ignore it, use a video or mp3 file as a test, to make sure, play the sound 'fresh' after each change of hardware driver as continuous play may only use the driver it first started playing on.įollowing on from the above 'output' sound issue, go to the 'input' tab, make sure the input volume is at least halfway and that it is Not muted. Up top is a slide bar, make sure this is at or near Maximum and the "Mute" is not on.
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