On Sun, 20 May 2012 17:16:38 +0530, George Olson
Howdy all,
It started this morning with skype. I was trying to skype home and used skype call testing service on my lenovo laptop (64 bit) and it would not record the sound from my internal mic.
So I opened pavucontrol and looked for the sound indicator bar on the "input devices" tab, and the bar was not there. I went to the configuration tab, and it was set to "Analog Stereo Output". I switched it to "Analog Stereo Input" and the sound indicator bar on the input devices tab appeared and indicated sound whenever I talked into the mic. But when I went back to the "configuration" tab and switched it back to "Analog Stereo Output", the "Input Devices" tab shows that no input devices are available and the bar is not there.
this makes sense, since choosing either input or output will exclude the other mode, and for skype operation you need both. usually it's called "analog stereo duplex." if this isn't available for your laptop, perhaps the audio device doesn't support full duplex audio (simultaneous in- and output), or the sound device isn't properly configured in yast -> sound, so that the system 'thinks' it works only one way. i've often seen that "rcalsasound restart" helps, since it resets the audio settings. if that doesn't help, i suggest searching the forums, where a user named "oldcpu" has given extensive advice in just such situations. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org