No Microphone with Skype

[lorebett]

Hi

I've just installed PCBSD and although the audio works fine, Skype does not get the sound from the microphone, thus I cannot use skype for voice calls...
is this a known issue?

thanks in advance

[Oko]

post output of mixer

[lorebett]

Mixer vol      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer pcm      is currently set to  96:96
Mixer line     is currently set to  87:87
Mixer mic      is currently set to  95:95
Mixer cd       is currently set to  96:96
Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer igain    is currently set to   0:0
Mixer ogain    is currently set to  50:50
Mixer line1    is currently set to  75:75
Mixer phin     is currently set to  88:88
Mixer phout    is currently set to   0:0
Recording source: mic

[Oko]

Code:

Mixer vol is currently set to 75:75 Mixer pcm is currently set to 96:96 Mixer line is currently set to 87:87 Mixer mic is currently set to 95:95 Mixer cd is currently set to 96:96 Mixer rec is currently set to 0:0 Mixer igain is currently set to 0:0 Mixer ogain is currently set to 50:50 Mixer line1 is currently set to 75:75 Mixer phin is currently set to 88:88 Mixer phout is currently set to 0:0 Recording source: mic

Your Mixer rec is 0:0. How do you expect to record? Set it to 75:75.

[lorebett]

I tried to set it with kmix but that does not seem to work... could you please suggest how to do with the mixer command itself?
thanks in advance

[eireen]

Is settings has something to do with it? Have you tried checking the settings? maybe it will work. Try it..

[Oko]

Is settings has something to do with it? Have you tried checking the settings? maybe it will work. Try it..

No it will not. He doesn't have his audio device properly configured.

Step 1 Enable mixer

# echo mixer_enable=YES > rc.conf

Step 2 Set Mic rec to 75:75 by going to su mode and doing it from
the command line. Read the man pages for mixer please how to do it and forget about idiotic GUI.

Step 3 You have to alter the permissions so that you have enough
privileges to record sound.

ls -l /dev/dspl*

It would read rw-rw-rw
The permission should be set to 0666

Step 4 Go to Skype and chose among preferences /dev/dspl for recording
You might have up to 9 devices for synthetic voice (dspl)

Reboot to make sure all changes took place (this is not necessary if you do know how to restart rc scripts.

Step 5 Before starting Skype check dmesg. Your sound device should be
listed with full duplex mode. If it is not than you do not have
hardware.

Cheers,
Oko

P.S. I assume that Linux compatibility layer is enabled on PC-BSD. If not it should be enabled. In particular you need compatibility layer
for Linux kernel 2.6 and libraries that enable alsa emulator.
That might not be done properly in PCBSD as the compatibility layer has changed from 2.4 to 2.6.

Another note. I assumed you use Skype 2.0 from ports. If you are using PBIs in particular PBI for legacy Skype 1.2 you are on your own.

[TerryP]

$ mixer rec 75:75