v 0.2
18 Oct 11
I was showing my Father how to use Skype on Debian - he was using a headphone / mic setup plugged into the front of the computer - when I discovered that despite the headphones working, the microphone was not.
I played with settings in Skype, then decided to see what the System could provide. I found settings for "Front Microphone" and "Front Microphone Boost" in the Gnome Alsa Mixer and activated them. I then found that I could use the microphone, but still Skype refused to use it.
Then I started to wonder. Does Skype use ALSA? Or is it wedded to OSS? I searched the package database and found a package "alsa-oss". On a whim I loaded it and then all was well. I cannot say for sure that this fixed things, but it certainly seemed to do the trick.
Later ........
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