Re: no microphone in skype

[Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com>]

On 12/07/2014 03:04 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 07/12/2014, kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Renaud  OLGIATI
> > <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 16:31:14 -0500
> > > kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Or simply use Hangouts. There's no need anymore for sticking with
> > > > > Microsoft code on Linux if you want video calls and destop sharing.
> > > > I use Skype mostly for video calls. For some reason, the quality from
> > > > skype is way better than Google Hangouts. If it is not Microsoft code,
> > > > you will be using Google's code. Both of them are proprietary. So I do
> > > > not see what the big gain is here.
> > > And anyway the computers of most of my Skype correspondents are infectes
> > > with the Windows virus...
> > Sure, that might as well be the case! But it is not the topic of this
> > thread. My intention is to get a working version of Skype on this
> > Debian machine. I do not want this thread to become a platform for
> > another OS flamewar.
> >
> > raju
> >
> >
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> Given that Micrishite took o0ver skype, to sabotage it, and, then,
> went out of its way to sabotage skype, have you indicated whether your
> microphone works with any other application on Debian?
>
> If your microphone does work with other applications on Debian, then
> iot may be that it is just part of the Microshite sabotage, that your
> microphone does not work with skype.
>
> If your microphone does not work with other applications on Debian,
> then that may be where the problem lies; an incompatible microphone.
>
> Before Microshite sabotaged skype, with using (successfully, before
> the sabotage) skype 2.2, running on Debian 6, I was successfully using
> a headset that included a microphone, which headset does not use USB,
> but instead, I think, RCA sockets and plugs (one for the microphone,
> and one for the sound out).

I am using Skype 4.3 on Wheezy 64 bit without problem now.

I had exact same problem as yours with microphone audio before.
What I did was to reset the microphone while Skype was testing the audio.

During the audio test, disable the microphone and re-enable it.

I found this method in Ubuntu forum and it worked.