Hello there, I've been warned you may not like the idea of using pulseaudio. :) OK. I've got Linux Mint (KDE version) and microphone that wouldn't work. My distro included pulseaudio out of the box. The story is lengthy but I'll describe my problem. First I wanted to use Skype but it was before releasing the current version (beta). Some folks advised me to get rid of pulseaudio so I did. Skype sometimes worked and sometimes not. But the microphone worked. I could also record my voice in audacity. But soon some problems appeared. Namely, the flash plugin in Firefox blocked my audio input so I couldn't use my microphone - I had to log off and log in and couldn't use my browser with flash running before I ran skype. It wasn't efficient. So the other folks told me to install pulseaudio - it supposed to fix my problems. I installed pulseaudio according to kubuntu/ubuntu wiki. In the meantime I dropped out the idea of using skype because of consuming too much of my cpu and because of its closed nature. Anyway my microphone became a "dead phone" and couldn't use it both in skype and even audacity. It also turned out that to record my voice in audacity using pulseaudio I have to take some tricks... really horrible. So I didn't really know there are such problems with stupid voice recording. Of course I don't blame you. I am used to work in console and the configuration of such distro like Gentoo isn't horror to me. I use Linux for a couple of years but this issue really frustrated me. I'm really confused about pulseaudio: some folks say to use it and the other to not. I want to use only some voip client and chat with my friends. Also I don't want to re-log to free my audio input. The microphone is working. That's the fact (I used it successfully in Windows a few minutes ago). I have it plugged-in at the back of my PC. I have also switched on all necessary audio channels in alsa-mixer (including audio input). I hope I'll find here good people that will help me. The problem overwhelmed me and I'm so frustrated :( ps here I also wrote about my problem: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=82663 cheers, Wojtek :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
