No skype sound



I'm running Debian etch with ALSA on a desktop with an Audigy sound
card. Although the sound system works, I can't get skype to access my
sound card.

I rebooted and reconfigured ALSA and ran $ aplay test.wav It produced
the test sound.

An obvious question: It is my understanding that my webcam (Logitech
Quickcam Pro for notebooks) has a mike build in. Is that so?

Another obvious question: I'm not using the Logitech Quickcam Pro for
Notebook with a notebook but with a desktop. Does that make any
difference?

I'm running skype 2.1.0.47. I installed the uvc driver:

$ dmesg | grep uvcvideo
[ 19.673176] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:0991)
[ 19.686509] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo

$ dmesg
...
[ 751.718389] process `skype' is using obsolete setsockopt
SO_BSDCOMPAT
[ 2646.176280] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1b.0 disabled
[ 2646.199657] usbcore: deregistering interface driver snd-usb-audio
[ 2704.216033] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level,
low) -> IRQ 20
[ 4275.193532] usb 4-5.1: USB disconnect, address 4
[ 4281.657159] usb 4-5.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 8
[ 4281.903655] usb 4-5.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 4281.903655] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:0991)
[ 4281.938699] input: UVC Camera (046d:0991) as /class/input/input6
[ 4281.959763] usb 4-5.1: New USB device found, idVendor=046d,
idProduct=0991
[ 4281.959767] usb 4-5.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0,
SerialNumber=2
[ 4281.959769] usb 4-5.1: SerialNumber: BABA8F46
[ 4282.051666] usbcore: registered new interface driver
snd-usb-audio


In the terminal in which I start skype, I get:

$ skype
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM null
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM null

$ lsmod | grep uvc
uvcvideo 46600 0
compat_ioctl32 2080 1 uvcvideo
videodev 28288 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 13028 2 uvcvideo,videodev
usbcore 119216 7
uvcvideo,usblp,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

Apparently skype runs in background even if user window is
closed. I get nothing returned from the fuser command:

$ fuser -v /dev/snd/*


Haines Brown


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