On Monday 07 August 2006 17:18, stephan beal wrote:
Hello, Susers (Susians? Susies?)!
i just accepted a job where i will be doing software development for Windows CE devices (GPS devices, mainly). As the work is 100% from home, and i haven't had a PC with Windows since 5+ years, i had to go buy a PC with Windows on it (i wasn't about to nuke/rearrange my Linux installations). Of course, the first thing i did with the PC was to nuke the 2nd factory-installed vfat partition and slap Suse 10.1 on it. Strangely enough, the devices that worked in Windows didn't work in Suse, and vice versa. After a full two days of tinkering with the system, everything works except the the damned microphone. i've googled and prayed and stood on my head (and sang the national anthem... backwards, as one of you suggested a few weeks ago), and still no luck.
It seems that the Intel ICH7 82801G sound chipset driver for Linux does not support the microphone properly. For example, with kmix, i cannot use the "set as input source" option for the mic, only for the "capture" input device (whatever that is). No amount of tinkering has given me a working microphone. Many users report that they can't even change the volume, but at least i haven't had that problem.
Is anyone here aware of a workaround for this problem? One site said to tell the OS that it's really an intel8x0 chipset, but when i do that (with a module alias) sound doesn't work at all.
The only reason in the world which i need a mic is so that i can use Skype voice. Aside from that, i wouldn't give a damn (nor would i have noticed) that the mic isn't working.
One thing for sure. The Skype 1.2 version is a big problem as such. Suggest to get the 1.3 beta. It solved my sound problems.