voice call using skype audio/microphone problem at my end

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> list there is a small problem.I use Ubuntu 10.04 64 ,and Skype
>
> lspci output for the audio card is
> 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD
> Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
>        Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02cf]
>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
>        Memory at f6afc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
> Queue=0/0 Enable-
>        Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
>        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
>        Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>
>        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
>
>
> I can play youtube videos easily and hear the voice as well.
> Here is the problem when I want to talk using skype on Ubuntu then I
> can hear the other persons
>  voice but my voice does not goes to the other side.To make sure I
> tried 3 different microphones and I
> was able to hear the other persons voice but they were not able to hear mine.
>
> Hence as a test I rebooted to Windows and person on other end was able
> to hear my voice (on same machine where I report this problem)
> So the problems seems only with some kind of drivers or some
> thing(which I do not know at this point) in Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit).
>
> Can any one suggest me any steps that I should follow or try?


In menu System->Preferences->Sound , check if the microphone is muted,
ad check if there is any other microphone available there, and try it.
In my systems, 2 microphones appear as available.



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