[SLE] Skype, mic and artsd

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:27:48 -0700

> Have been scratching my head due to this, for several nights now:

>I have tried to record sound in KDE (Krecord, Audacity, even
>Qarecord) and also did try out Skype, but the microphone
>seems to be a problem - it records on a very very low level,
>like a whisper really, and in Skype the fellow in the other
>end barely hears me.
 
>While I can hear myself in the headphones just fine, loud
>and clear, a recording ends up useless "whisper".

>Have played with various mic settings, mic boost is on, have
>.played with etc/asound.state settings based on an usenet msg,
>and with sound related permissions. In Skype I tried starting
>Skype with "artsd something" parameter based on a newsgroup
>.article; no help.

>As I see it here and there in usenet messages that other people
>too do have this problem in Suse 9.2, and as someone else -
>apart from Jake Sallee - wrote something about Suse (artsd?)
>packages being broken, could this be due to some Suse (artsd
>or other) RPM's being "bad".

>If so, which packages should one download and rebuild,
>to get a consistent upgrade to the sound system?

>I use a Terratec Aureon Fun 5.1 card, but earlier I had
>Creative Live Player 5.1 and if I remember correct, it
>did not perform too well either. (Did not try Skype with it,
>though.) There's an integrated sound chip on my PC,
>but it is disabled in the BIOS settings. The mic/headphone
>set is a good quality Labtec one and should be working just
>fine.

>Test sound in Control Centre / Sound System works
>o.k. but test midi produces no sound whatsoever.
>MP3's and Wav's play ok. Alsa mixer looks like the
>recording level settings etc. would be as they should.

>Thanks for any input, especially for instructions on
>getting and rebuilding the relevant RPM's.

 >2.6.8-24.11-smp / artsd (whatever it is..) version is 1.3.0
>dw / Mike

>Are there any jumpers on the sound card?  

>Not all microphones are necessarily compatible with all soundcards.  Most PC
>microphones are of the electret condenser kind which requires power to be
>sent to the microphone.  Some soundcards have a jumper you have to set to
>send power to the mike, because they're designed to work with either
>electret or standard dynamic microphones, and are changed in hardware rather
>than software.

>Certainly the symptoms you describe would happen if you were either (a) using
>an electret microphone without power, or (b) using a dynamic microphone on a
>soundcard which expected an electret mike.

>First thing I'd do is borrow a couple of microphones from friends and see if
>you get any better results -- it may be that you're bashing your head
>against a wall by playing around with the software.

>Cheers,

>Matt

I had same problems with Skype and SUSE 9.2. When I try to call people, they
barely hear me. I have tired some better mics but no improvement.
Then I loaded PCLinuxOS Live, and there is Skype app. With my low quality mic
people hear me quite fine. So, problem is with some software.
What should I upgrade to resolve this issue? arts?

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Mirko 
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