On 16/03/13 11:48 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
No, your advice was reasonable. I needed Pulse Audio to get any sound out of my system (I use KDE as my desktop). However, this person seems to have sound working OK. I do have a listing for pulse in my pulldown of microphone devices, but my problem with no Skype microphone was simply Skype not identifying the correct device.On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 11:38 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:All you need to do is test the various possible microphone devices listed in the Skype Sound Device microphone options until you find one that works. You don't need to understand what they mean. Just try them. One of them will work.My apologies, it's just that I don't know what pusleaudio is good for and when I asked, skype often was mentioned.
It defaulted to "default" which didn't have a microphone attached. That would have been the on-board sound, not the USB microphone. Given that the OP has microphone input working, his current problem must be local to Skype.