Skype Mic Not Working Karmic

[branislavski]

Ok, i know there is a million posts about this but i still cant figure it out. I have installed and played with "pedvechooser" (pulse audio chooser) but im still stuck with the mic not working in skype plus its really low in other programs like sound recorder for example. I have no clue and its frustrating cause i need skype to be in touch with people but i have to boot stupid vista to talk to them normally.
Lately i get this crazy thoughts that just maybe windows 7 is a good idea, but then i slap myself and im ok again.

I have a HP pavilion dv 9730us

bane@ubuntu:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: Conexant Digital [Conexant Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[Zoot7]

I've the same problem aswell with the inbuilt mic beside the Webcam in my Dell XPS M1530 just in Skype. I haven't gone fiddling too much with Pulseaudio yet, not too big an issue since I generally use the headset for skype anyway.
I had it working in Jaunty but that was by simply removing pulseaudio entirely, and I'd rather not do that now.

Anyway, I too would be interested if anyone was any advice on this issue.

EDIT: I did find a solution earlier, but it was simply to disable Pulseaudio when you start skype and then re-enable it after you're done.

[andddlay]

Here's what I did. Just got it working.

System>Preferences>Sounds then go to the input tab and unmute the input volume and bump up that to the max

Hope I helped.

[woodybrando]

thx andddlay,
i been stuck for a week or so trying to figure out how to get the internal mic to work on my netbook with karmic and skype. And you were right, I just needed to turn up the volume on the mic. I swear I'd tried this ten times before but for some reason this time it worked.

The mic seems more staticky than normal, the signal to noise is low but it's better than silence. thx. jayson

[andddlay]

thx andddlay,
i been stuck for a week or so trying to figure out how to get the internal mic to work on my netbook with karmic and skype. And you were right, I just needed to turn up the volume on the mic. I swear I'd tried this ten times before but for some reason this time it worked.

The mic seems more staticky than normal, the signal to noise is low but it's better than silence. thx. jayson

Glad that problem got resolved for you

[branislavski]

Im glad it worked for you guys but my problem persits, in my input section there is no settings posible because its all greyed out.