Phonon + PulseAudio + Skype = No mic

[Eric Griffith]

Unfortunately Stephen it was not; I do thank you however for offering
advice. I believe you found that information from the Arch Wiki (just
saw the same suggestion there :D) Neither your suggestion, or that of
all the Arch Wiki on KDE / Pulse / KDE + Pulse was able to fix my
specific use case. And doubly unfortunately... I may just broken it
further >.> Gotta try to retrace my steps now!

Aaaah the joys of linux sometimes lol

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Stephen Dowdy <sdowdy at ucar.edu> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> Just replying directly to you, but if this is applicable, please
> follow up on the list.
>
> I have an ASUS Eee PC 1005PE that i finally got Skype working on
> (Debian Squeeze) by following some instructions i found somewhere
> (don't know sure where).
>
> Tell skype that it MAY NOT automatically adjust the mixer
> and then set the left Mic input/gain to 0 and the right input to 75-80%.
>
> This works for the Eee, as i understand it, because the left/right
> mic are done via differencing the two inputs, where the right
> channel is the master, they aren't fully independent.
>
> skype apparently can't deal with that, esp if it's in control of
> the mixer.
>
> Good luck,
> --stephen
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