Hmmmm… I´m feeling a bit silly here, but I cant get it to work…
I get to the test call, but the sound is not recording, the internal Laptop mic isn´t picking up sound… I do hear the skype voice in the test call…
I´ve looked in the sound preferences and can´t find the problem, “Sound recorder” doesn´t pick up any sound either…
as for the vid.
“Cheese” shows me my pic, and the light for the cam goes on, but I don´t get video on my skype… when I close “Cheese” the light for the cam goes off…
…I´m going to try find myself an extern mic, to see if that helps…
Not sure it’s relevant, but my internal mic doesn’t work w/Skype either,
though my external (headset) mic does. Cheese also works for me, though
I’ve never tried sending my picture via Skype. I can see others’ pictures
when they are using Skype and talking to me. I’m on 11.3, x86_64.
Good luck.
On 05/16/2011 05:36 AM, Till77 wrote:
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> Hmmmm… I´m feeling a bit silly here, but I cant get it to work…
>
> I get to the test call, but the sound is not recording, the internal
> Laptop mic isn´t picking up sound… I do hear the skype voice in the
> test call…
>
> I´ve looked in the sound preferences and can´t find the problem,
> “Sound recorder” doesn´t pick up any sound either…
>
>
>
> as for the vid.
> “Cheese” shows me my pic, and the light for the cam goes on, but I
> don´t get video on my skype… when I close “Cheese” the light for the
> cam goes off…
>
>
>
> …I´m going to try find myself an extern mic, to see if that
> helps…
>
>
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On 2011-05-16 13:36, Till77 wrote:
> I get to the test call, but the sound is not recording, the internal
> Laptop mic isn´t picking up sound… I do hear the skype voice in the
> test call…
In my case the internal mic picks the vibration from the fan and hard disk,
with the voice pretty low. It is not usable. So I use instead a headset
with mic.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
…any Ideas on the cam, I would like to do video conferences. in Skype>options>Video devices there is a box on the right which I assume should be showing my pretty face - it seems to have put a big black bag over my head though
…and the mike is not working at all… also not with “sound recorder”
On 2011-05-16 15:36, Till77 wrote:
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> OK, it works with a headset!
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> any chance of getting the internal Mike to work?
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> …and (more important) the web cam???
Ahh … there are so many different webcams. I tried, but I could not guess what webcam you have. I know. I know. Its obvious to you as to EXACTLY what webcam you have and what driver you are using, but it is not to us who would like to help. How about telling us ? Tell us EXACTLY. Not some general name. We need to know EXACTLY. ie what is output of:
lsusb
for starters … we can then help you determine the driver later (if you can not tell us now).
till@linux-0ufc:~> lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1058:0730 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04a9:10d3 Canon, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05c8:0403 Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd (Foxlink)
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 1bcf:053a Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0a5c:21b4 Broadcom Corp. BCM2070 Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
till@linux-0ufc:~>
mv /usr/bin/skype /usr/bin/skype.real
chmod 755 /usr/bin/skype.real
vi /usr/bin/skype
and put the following inside
#!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype.real
…
now I put vi /usr/bin/skype in the term and get:
E325: ATTENTION
Found a swap file by the name “/usr/bin/.skype.swp”
owned by: root dated: Mon May 16 20:13:33 2011
[cannot be opened]
While opening file “/usr/bin/skype”
(1) Another program may be editing the same file.
If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two
different instances of the same file when making changes.
Quit, or continue with caution.
(2) An edit session for this file crashed.
If this is the case, use “:recover” or “vim -r /usr/bin/skype”
to recover the changes (see “:help recovery”).
If you did this already, delete the swap file “/usr/bin/.skype.swp”
to avoid this message.
E325: ATTENTION
Found a swap file by the name “/usr/bin/.skype.swp”
owned by: root dated: Mon May 16 20:13:33 2011
[cannot be opened]
While opening file “/usr/bin/skype”
(1) Another program may be editing the same file.
If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two
different instances of the same file when making changes.
Quit, or continue with caution.
(2) An edit session for this file crashed.
If this is the case, use “:recover” or “vim -r /usr/bin/skype”
to recover the changes (see “:help recovery”).
If you did this already, delete the swap file “/usr/bin/.skype.swp”
to avoid this message.
