Linux Lite Forums
Microphone not working in Skype - Printable Version

+- Linux Lite Forums (https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums)
+-- Forum: Hardware - Support (https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=6)
+--- Forum: Sound (https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=23)
+--- Thread: Microphone not working in Skype (/showthread.php?tid=3165)

Pages: 1 2

Re: Microphone not working in Skype - Wirezfree - 08-07-2016

Not sure what to suggest next...
Have you seen this.?

Re: Microphone not working in Skype - mandoran - 08-07-2016

Thanks, I hadn't seen that but it seems I have a microphone/recording problem that is more fundamental than Skype related.


Using some of that info I can make the microphone output go from unconnected silence to connected hiss, but no more.


Have to keep Googling I guess...

Re: Microphone not working in Skype - LinxBeginner - 07-10-2017

Hi, I just wanted to share how I solved my mic problem with Skype.  I have LL 1.0.8 in 2017 on Acer Aspire one.  To give my condition, microphone was working fine after going to $ gstreamer-properties to fix it. https://askubuntu.com/questions/163729/microphone-is-not-working-in-skype

Mic for skype was however still not working. then I found this page:
http://www.zyxware.com/articles/4857/solved-microphone-not-working-in-skype-in-ubuntu-on-a-lenovo-b40

I found many forum about this topic and many involved killing pluseaudio, etc, which I am not competent to do.  This simple processes did it for me; hope this helps others also.  Best

Re: Microphone not working in Skype - mandoran - 07-10-2017

Thanks, that is very interesting indeed, and something I certainly never came across while troubleshooting my problem.

Re: Microphone not working in Skype - Artim - 07-10-2017

Grrrrrrr, PulseAudio.  It was in Beta when it was first imposed on Ubuntu-derived distros.  I used to just remove it and replace it with ALSA, but it's more complicated now, so many applications have PulseAudio as a dependency.  Killing it (but leaving it's dead body in place, so to speak, by not uninstalling it) usually still works for fixing some applications that depend on it.