On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 07:54 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2008 10:26:55 +0100 > David Hough <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up a laptop with a VoIP softphone (I've tried both > > Zoiper and Skype) and it's proving impossible to get it to work with > > microphones. > > Not much help, but I just tried the simple "sound recorder" app > from the "Sound and Video" menu and it seemed to kinda work: > > I first ran the pulseaudio volume control and selected the USB > mic on my webcam as the default audio input device (the mic input > on my motherboard has never worked very well). > > I then clicked record in the sound recorder app and it gave me > an error beep and didn't start recording. I clicked it again, > and got same error. I clicked it one more time and it started > recording, and was able to playback the noises I made while > recording. > > I think maybe pulseaudio has an "I tell you three times" mode > or something :-). > Some chips with multiple registers have built in write order dependencies i.e. writing register b won't take effect until register a is written. If the documentation is not clear, or the software driver author has not read the datasheet, or the information is just not in the data sheet, but common knowledge of the in house developers, then you get the I tell you three times effect, as the dependencies all work their way through the sequence. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
