Hello
I installed about 3 weeks ago opensuse 12.3 rc2 x64 and Skype 4.1.0.20 worked fine.
After several online updates today I noticed that skype microfone does not work anymore I can hear but not speak…
Anyone using opensuse 12.3 with pulsaudio working on 12.3 now?
Thans
Beat
It reads like your mic is muted. Can you provide here your mixer settings ? you can do that by running in a terminal the diagnostic script with your PC connected to the Internet:
/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh
and select the upload/share option. Let the script complete and after it has fully completed it will give in a the terminal a web address that we need you to paste here. That will have your mixer info inside.
Also, please consider looking at pavucontrol (install if necessary) and use that to tune your mic in Skype. I blogged on that subject here: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/oldcpu/pulseaudio-basics-opensuse-pavucontrol-96/#comment343
Could this be related to the problem I reported here https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/multimedia/484630-kmix-mutes-microphone-opensuse-12-3-when-trying-change-input-level.html
Thanks for replies.
The problem was that the sound card profile was changed from Analog stero duplex to Analog Stereo Output and because of that Audio recording disabled.
Now it works again like a charm …
No idea who did the changes? A sw update or an human error …
Greetings
Glad to read now that it is working. Thankyou for sharing your solution.
Hi,
I tried to configure my mic with pavucontrol but without much success. Here are my mixer settings.
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=65c3d2eddf45ea7fbfb83e336359adc07b41da67
You do not say if you are attempting to use an internal mic or an external mic. That is key information to provide. Please, can you provide that information ?
I note a 32-bit openSUSE-12.3 running on a Lenovo B560 with 1.0.26 version of alsa and the 3.7.10-1.1-desktop kernel. Hardware audio codec is an ALC269VB and pulse audio is enabled . The snd_hda_intel alsa kernel module is loaded.
I note this for your sound device recording:
**ARECORD**
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
**card 0:** MID [HDA Intel MID], **device 0: **ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
ie the record device is hw:0,0
I note this from amixer:
**!!Amixer output**
!!-------------
!!-------Mixer controls for card 0 [MID]
**Card hw:0 'MID'/'HDA Intel MID at 0xf2800000 irq 44'**
Mixer name : 'Intel IbexPeak HDMI'
**Simple mixer control 'Mic',0**
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
**Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0**
Front Left: 0 **[0%]** [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 **[0%]** [0.00dB]
**Simple mixer control 'Capture',0**
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] -16.50dB] **[off]**
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] -16.50dB] **[off]**
**Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0**
Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
Item0: '**Enabled**'
**Simple mixer control 'Digital',0**
Front Left: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB]
**Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic Boost',0**
Front Left: 0 **[0%]** [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 **[0%]** [0.00dB]
Both the boost control for the regular external ‘Mic’ and the ‘internal mic’ are at 0%. I recommend you move them up to 66% for initial testing.
You have capture 0 set to 0% and OFF. IMHO that will guarantee neither Mic will work. So you need to raise that to around 70% or higher and change the mute from OFF to ON.
Hi,
did you mean I am supposed to make these changes in Vulume Settings for Card 0?
I only managed to configure for external mic, i.e. can use Skype with Headset and Mic. It still acceptable solution but I have problem with noise during conversation. Is it possible to eliminate it entirely? An one more thing: as soon as I unplug the mic or headphones there is a horrible high sound. I suppose I configured smth wrong.
My settings:http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=1d4cd3d16d56dad1e0c0ac0104e109590c28138e
wrt noise … I note :
!!Amixer output
!!-------------
!!-------Mixer controls for card 0 [MID]
**Card hw:0 'MID'/'HDA Intel MID at 0xf2800000 irq 44'**
Mixer name : 'Intel IbexPeak HDMI'
**Simple mixer control 'Mic',0**
Front Left: Playback 31 **[100%]** [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 **[100%]** [12.00dB] [on]
**Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0**
Front Left: 0 **[0%]** [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 **[0%]** [0.00dB]
**Simple mixer control 'Digital',0**
Front Left: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB]
**Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic Boost',0**
Front Left: 3 **[100%]** [36.00dB]
Front Right: 3 **[100%]** [36.00dB]
Try tuning those settings. Reduce the Simple mixer control ‘Mic’ from 100% to 70%. Increase the Simple mixer control ‘Mic Boost’ from 0% to 33%.
Your digital Mic should be working. Try increasing ‘Digital’ capture to 70% and reduce the “Internal Mic Boost” from 100% to 66%.
Skype 4.1.0.20 on opensuse 12.3 x86_64 is buggy.
Every time I start up Skype it’s impossible to make a call, it says that there’s a problem with audio device. Then I go to option, sound devices, I do nothing except a test sound (that works), go back to make a call and everything works.
Furthermore, sometimes during a call I stop hearing but others hear me (Not always, just sometimes).
I’ve never experienced that.
I’ve experienced this when video chatting with Skype my 87-year old mother (who lives in North America). She is running openSUSE-12.1 on her PC, and I have openSUSE-12.3. We both have the same Skype version.
Each time the loss of sound has occured, I have then tested with another PC in our LAN and our sound is fine between my PC with the other PC on my LAN.
If I manage to get my mother to reboot, and then log on to Skype audio then works two way between our two PCs. My current suspicion is she has Skype set to automatically load upon boot, and then automatically login. Then she clicks on the Skype ICON on her desktop and unintentionally opens multiple instances of Skype (which I believe causes problems), but I have not yet been able to prove that hypothesis (with me being a continent away) , and this is all a bit beyond her GNU/Linux expertise.
Am 21.04.2013 14:26, schrieb oldcpu:
>
> acez;2549638 Wrote:
>>
>> Every time I start up Skype it’s impossible to make a call, it says
>> that there’s a problem with audio device. Then I go to option, sound
>> devices, I do nothing except a test sound (that works), go back to make
>> a call and everything works.
>>
> I’ve never experienced that.
>
I cannot add much useful things here, but just want to confirm that I
also use skype 4.1.0.20 on openSUSE 12.3 (two machines) and never
experienced that problem, so the conclusion that skype is buggy is a far
fetched here, it can be anything else (some glitch in sound
configuration maybe or the multiple instance thingy mentioned or …).
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PC: oS 12.3 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.10.0 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.3 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.10.0 | HD 3000
HannsBook: oS 12.3 x86_64 | SU4100@1.3GHz | 2GB | KDE 4.10.0 | GMA4500
OK, so it’s not Skype that’s buggy, but my sound configuration … not tweaked, just out of the box (and NO double instances). 12.1 and previous (always x84_64) worked better on the same hardware (12.2 never installed).
I regularly use the laptop with VLC and Kaffeine (and a bunch of multimedia apps) and I don’t have problems with audio. As soon as I start Skype problems begins: easy problems (that is just go in option and make test sound) or sometimes hard problems (audio disappears, for skype but also for VLC, KAffeine etc, until reboot).
I have unticked “let Skype adjust mixer levels” but it’s the same.
Since I don’t use Skype often, I’'ll manage to live without it (windows reboot … is the easiest workaround).
In my opinion this started to happen sometime after some upgrade (I use packman repositories).
Bye, bye
I rebooted the pc a tried to launch skype from command line.
I got plenty of:
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
Trying to open a call i doesn’t work. If I go in Option and make a test sound I can hear it a retrying to make a call it works. In the mean while on terminal I got some of these:
ALSA lib control.c:953:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:CARD=MID
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib control.c:953:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:CARD=MID
In my /usr/lib/alsa-lib/ ther’s only a “smixer” folder …
> ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
This file is part of alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit (after all skype is a
32bit program even on 64 bit systems), of course I do not know if
installing it solves your problem.
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PC: oS 12.3 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.10.0 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.3 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.10.0 | HD 3000
HannsBook: oS 12.3 x86_64 | SU4100@1.3GHz | 2GB | KDE 4.10.0 | GMA4500
I just solved a similar problem on my 12.3 system. Installing ALSA 32-bit drivers on your x64 OS seems to be critical to making Skype work.
I think I’m OK from this point of view.
These are already installed on my system:
Anyway I’ll try even:
[EDIT]
No more errors from command line (such as those described above). I’ll try a little bit in the next days.
Thanks a lot.
Everything seems fixed now.
TNX a lot.