sofasurfer Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 I was using Skype adequetly with sound breaking up from the other caller. But I checked the 'advanced' checkbox and tried some of the advanced settings. I then put everything back to the way it was but now everything screwed up. When I blow into the mic it comes over my speakers. When I speak it comes throughmy speakers with a 1 second delay. The person at the other end also says that when he blows into the mic it comes over his speakers. I deleted skype and reloaded it. Is there a way to reset kmix back to default settings? What else can I do? What happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannin Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 (edited) You deleted Skype, but did you also delete your Skype settings? They're found in ~/.Skype. Also, are you using a USB audio device, or are you using your system's sound card? Edited March 5, 2006 by Gannin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofasurfer Posted March 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 I deleted skype again including ~/.Skype. Reinstalled. No better. Plus, now, although I can hear the other person, they can't hear me. So I reinstall linux and that didn't help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannin Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Are you using a USB audio device or your system's sound card for your Skype communication? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofasurfer Posted March 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Systems sound card which is a soundblaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannin Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 And are you using the oss or the alsa sound driver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofasurfer Posted March 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Sorry, I don't understand that. When I loaded linux I used a driver off the linux disk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannin Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 From the command line, type alsamixer and hit enter. If it brings up a control interface, then use the right arrow key to scroll across the window until you find the volume bar that says "mic" in the blue box beneath it. If there is a green square directly above where it says "mic", hit your m key and the green square should go away. Then hit your Esc key to exit and save the settings. Doing what I just described mutes your mic's output volume. When the mic's output volume is unmuted and turned up, then everything picked up by the mic will be played back over the speakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofasurfer Posted March 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Very interesting. I will play with this and post tomorrow on results. Thanks for your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannin Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 You're welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofasurfer Posted March 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 I have my mic working again. I have no echo when I talk. If I blow into the mic I can hear it on the speakers but ordinary speech is not noticed. Is this normal for sounds to go from the mic directly to the speakers such as when I blow in it. I remember seeing people on stage blow into their mic to test it. So it must mean something. I found the 'echo123' listing in the phone book for testing your sound. I am receiving sound but it is badly (very very badly) broken up. Worse than it started out as before I screwed everything up. I messed with the alsamixer. I don't know if this is why I got my mic working. I really can't make any since out of alsamixer. Theres nowhere that explains what all those settings mean. I tried kmix again. Interesting note...in kmix the capture slider WON'T SLIDE. I can mute it with the button but the slider stays in the full up position. Another point...When I was talking to my brother, after a while his wife got on. Her voice was not nearly as broken up as his. She talks a little louder then he does. So he talked louder and his voice improved a bit with less breakup. This tells me that the breakup problem isn't really because is bandwidth, doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannin Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 It sounds to me like his configuration needs to be looked into also. Perhaps the gain settings on his system need to be adjusted... having the gain adjusted improperly can cause distortion. http://www.alsa-project.org/ http://alsa.opensrc.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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