On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Toby Collett <tcollett+lists at plan9.net.nz> wrote: > I am trying to use the internal microphone in my laptop to make VOIP calls > (actually skype mostly). The quality of the sound is not good at all with > large amounts of background noise when I have the levels up high enough to > get voice. The microphone is usable windows, and I am wondering if this is > due to software filters being applied there? Could it be that the mic-boost or some other switch of the soundcard is differently initialized under Windows? You can check in Linux with: alsamixer -c0 Maarten
