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fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 745

Skype and HDA Intel issues

Yesterday I tried to use Skype on my new machine ehich has a HDA Intel soundcard,

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller

which is a 7.1 surround card. On the machine there is a front panel for the different card readers it has and audio inputs (headphone & mic). So I plug my Plantronics headset into the inputs in the front panel and start skype and call the testline. For some reason now I can only get sound in the right ear with skype and the mic doesn't work. If I listen to music or anything else then I get sound in both ears. I then tried to plug the headset into the back of my machine. The result was the same except the mic worked there so I could talk with Skype. What could be wrong? I have checked that the mic in the front is unmuted and everything and I can hear getting input when I turn it up (noise) but skype doesn't want to use it. Also I don't understand why I only get sound in one ear with skype.

Regards

André

PS. I tried to play with the setting in skype but no luck. I had to add this option to modprobe.conf to get my audio even working on my new machine

options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1

do I need to add other options maybe? My machine is a DELL Studio desktop by the way.

fettouhi

Member

Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 745

Re: Skype and HDA Intel issues

I got now sound in both speakers when using. I simply turned the option in skype saying that skype should control my mixer settings. Still I can't the front mic to respind at all. I tried to do a simply recording with it both nothing gets picked up from the front mic.

Regards

André

MartinZ

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From: Chiloé, Chile

Registered: 2005-06-10

Posts: 379

Re: Skype and HDA Intel issues

Same here. However, if I scream loud enough, there is something audible in the recording...

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R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: Skype and HDA Intel issues

Did you select the input source correctly? I guess you are using alsa, check alsamixer and play with the controls a little bit.

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