Comments on: Get your microphone working in Ubuntu 9.04 and skype (x64)

By: Colin Phillip Martin

Colin Phillip Martin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:27:26 +0000

Thanks man. You are a life saver.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:53:24 +0000

Thanks for this well done manual. Really annoying that it’s still that complicated to set up basic media functions under Linux, even Ubuntu…

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John | empresa paginas web — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:05:08 +0000

like says justaguy i solve the problem turning the left volume of the microphone to 0. only doing this skype works

By: Richard Lefèvre

Richard Lefèvre — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:44:05 +0000

Hey Thank you verrrrry much.. my problem was the audio preferences. the microphone was set on mute by default.

learning every day..

By: justaguy

justaguy — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:29:18 +0000

1) installed pavucontrol from synaptic.
2) I typed “pavucontrol” on the command line. This brought up the Pulse audio settings panel.
3) I set right side volume to 80%, and I set left side volume to 0%.
4) Make sure you tell Skype not to adjust volume control.. This will mess everything up.
5) Make a test call on skype. Now the onboard mic is working.

By: alex

alex — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:48:54 +0000

excellent stuff … many thanks … awesome article … this was really helpful

By: blah

blah — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:07:34 +0000

No-no… I had no microphone signal from my web camera, until I went into System > Preferences > Sound. In that dialog, switch to input tab and “Choose a device for sound input”: I set mine to my webcam (VF0610 Live! Cam socialize HD Analog Mono”).

It is solved, now, eh?

By: tanel

tanel — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:00:39 +0000

Šarūnas help me too >D

By: tanel

tanel — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:50:46 +0000

Its wierd that i dont find prefrences section. I am using Xfce .

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:18:33 +0000

Thank you, Šarūnas! You saved my mic!

By: b0f0b0f0

b0f0b0f0 — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:16:02 +0000

in console type: alsamixer (afer that press F4)
Front mic boost: OFF
Line in boost: OFF
Mic boost: OFF
Capture: ON at 20% (if I go higher I cant record anything beacuse of saturisation)
Digital: ON at 100%
Input source: Mic (if you are using external microphone) or Front Mic (if you are using internal/built-in microphone like laptops)

google talk and skype are working

I would suggest that you buy a cheap headset with a microphone
built-in microphone in my laptop gives poor resoults compared to external mic

Card: HDA intel
Chip: Realtek ALC268

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:09:30 +0000

Thanks a lot! I tried pulseaudio and worked great for me!
I am using Maverick and KDE on HP Pavillion dv2000.

By: Šarūnas

Šarūnas — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:15:59 +0000

hey! it works on 10.10, except on the admin>prefs>sound there is a different screen – selecting hardware > “analog stereo duplex” instead of “analog stereo output” (and choosing your mic connector in input tab) works like a charm

By: Sahar

Sahar — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:06:29 +0000

Thank you very much! You cannot imagine how many times I attacked this problem but unsuccessful. Many thanks once more!

By: Sumudu Hewage

Sumudu Hewage — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:38:36 +0000

U are a saviour… thank u….

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:20:08 +0000

Awesome – worked for me

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 23 May 2010 19:09:41 +0000

Great article and comments

By: mic

mic — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:48:30 +0000

very useful, thanks! shure microphone

By: mugipw

mugipw — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:24:59 +0000

Thank you very much. I am running skype 2.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 in my good old Eee PC 900. If I may add, in alsamixer > capture tab >Input source > make sure to select “front mic” if you want to use internal mic (near webcam in eee pc900) for capture, or “mic” if you want to use external mic / headset.

By: zebu

zebu — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:23:47 +0000

Thx mate!

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:52:24 +0000

Than you for the advice.
I had Skype playing back sounds correctly. But when I tried to make test calls the input from the microphone did not work.
In my case the solution has been really simple. I only had to un-mute the input volume under Tools/Preferences/Sound Preferences “Input” tab.

By: Jussi

Jussi — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:22:31 +0000

Thanks for this blog. It helped me to solve the issue. I have Ubuntu 9.04 and IBM Thinkpad R51. After fiddled with the Alsamixer I could get the sounds right! I did not know how to open the Alsamixer, but found it very easy after these instructions.

For me the best results came via disabling the “Stereo Mic” in Alsa-mixer panel (gnome) and disabling Skype to automatically adjust the mixer levels too.

When testing the sound with linux sound recorder, I randomly get very crackled sound every now and then. However the other times the sound is clear. The skype works OK even though it only shows PulseAudio as options.

thanks again

By: anders

anders — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:54:53 +0000

worked for me. awesome. thanks

By: vidhyaplv

vidhyaplv — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:57:12 +0000

thanks for the advice
It helped me a lot .finally i found a solution to the mic problem

By: Alejandro Fernandez

Alejandro Fernandez — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:08:28 +0000

Thanks! It worked like a charm

By: trout

trout — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:20:02 +0000

I say it’s not relevant to maximize all the mixer channels. In fact, the overly boosted microphone volume settings will break the sound totally. A good volume level for my laptop soundcard was around 40% The more I added volume to it, the worse it came.

Anyway, my problem was that Skype settings in the sound devices tab didn’t show any other options than Pulseaudio, no matter what I did in my sound settings.
The microphone worked with my sound recorder but in Skype it only recorded some loud noise.
The problem was as I expected the volume level of my microphone. This time in the pulseaudio levels, which are separate from the alsamixer. I installed Pavucontrol (pulse audio volume control) and lowered the microphone volume level. The volume control itself didn’t even start, but I went to the control center, devices tab, and chose the output alsa and its properties. The right channel was boosting 100% all the time. I pushed reset button from the properties and it settled down.
Now everything works fine. I hope you understood my adventure.

By: coldarmy

coldarmy — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:09:30 +0000

thanks ,I have solve my problem

By: arielin743

arielin743 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:07:49 +0000

i went on gnome terminal and its saying there is no such file like that D:

By: ichliebede

ichliebede — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:23:39 +0000

Hello! I would like to thank you for your blog on this subject! I’ve searched a lot and finally your advice helped solve it! Cheers

By: ochampao

ochampao — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:34:30 +0000

The option is: “Allow Skype to automatically adjust my audio mixer levels”.

By: ochampao

ochampao — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:32:55 +0000

Skype has an option in the Sound Devices section which needs to be disabled. I found out that when this option was enabled Skype overrides any changes that the use makes from Ubunut’s sound preferences or alsamixer.

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By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:41:56 +0000

Thank you kindly. This was a partial fix for me. I had been doing my testing through the built in mic but when I tested with an external microphone, it worked like a charm. This might lead you to believe this is a PC problem but, no, the built in mic works fine in Windows.

By: duckslammer

duckslammer — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:37:15 +0000

I’m using xubuntu 9.04 (xfce instead of gnome). Skype’s only options for input and output are pulse. Sound works fine but the mic only produces a rhythmic clicking sound. This is the same with builtin mic and a headset. This is not a skype issue as I get the same results with xfce sound recorder.

clues appreciated

davidduckslammer @ gmail.com

By: James

James — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:19:56 +0000

i’ve got the front mic working in skype – but it is on all the time now. is there a way to enable apps like skype to turn on the mic when they need it, but for the mic to be off until then?

By: qzar

qzar — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:16:37 +0000

Thank you, your advices helped a lot.

By: the_rastaman

the_rastaman — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:48:50 +0000

i have an acer aspire 4730z, when i record the audio using gnome-sound-recorder , actually record the sound but when i tried in skype nothing happend. can some one help me??????

By: gendutbawel

gendutbawel — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:23:31 +0000

thanks a lot for the tips

By: Armen

Armen — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:47:28 +0000

Thank you for your tutorial. I finally got my mic and skype working on my GX620 laptop. I was about to give up

By: ephman

ephman — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:55:47 +0000

worked like a charm… thanks for the tips.

ephman

By: DarkCrunk

DarkCrunk — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:41:17 +0000

Hello there, thanks a lot for your help. Worked for me very well. Keep the good working.

By: aslam

aslam — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:40:23 +0000

Thanks a Lot, this worked for me.
I do all my work on ubuntu & my job contacts are only on skype, this helped me alot.

Thank you very much again

By: srikanth

srikanth — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:33:20 +0000

Thanks! This worked for me!

By: Melroy

Melroy — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:55:11 +0000

thx!

By: sachi

sachi — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:33:50 +0000

i have a hp dv5 laptop with amd processor.
i have insatll skype and ubuntu9 but still i am struggling with microphone.i cann’t hear my voice when i record my voice nor my skype microphone is working.
When i type “alsamixer” i am not getting same image which u have posted above.So please help me.

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By: Parthasarathy K

Parthasarathy K — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:40:17 +0000

Thanks a lot to all of you
it is working

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:59:46 +0000

The critical option for me was in System/Preferences/Sound to choose “HDA/Intel (Alsa mixer)” as the Maser mixing device.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:30:23 +0000

Thank you. This was a big help! You stopped my frustrations about that my sound recorder just gave a beep. Now I can finally record my voice!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:36:23 +0000

Cheers, took a bit of trial and error but your directions were extremely helpful!!!

By: The Digital Wingnut

The Digital Wingnut — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:25:36 +0000

Thanks for the info and blog. Got it all working can’t remember how. Hope I can do it again if need to and I’m sure I’ll need to.

All op sys are getting to complex, linux, microsoft, mac. Apps too, take a look at adobe acrobat cs4, over a Gb of app/crap. It’s the first product adobe came out with and they have had too much time to…improve it?… how would the french say it?… fuck it up!

perhaps it’s time to return to CPM.

By: Anup

Anup — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:31:32 +0000

Thanks. Worked for me (Kubuntu 9.04)

By: andreas

andreas — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:04:55 +0000

thank a lot for this instruction, it worked for me.

By: Rickster

Rickster — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:35:14 +0000

I tried getting skype and Ubuntu 9.04 and all this “pulse” crap to work but I still had no Mic.

But This quick and dirty DID WORK:
# sudo aptitude search “pulse”
# sudo aptitude purge/remove “pulse”
-reboot-
# In Ubuntu 9.04 -> Sound Properties -> Volume Control
-> enable Mic.

(if skype is installed set all the audio crap in skype’s options back to “autoselect/defaults…”, and/or alsa)
or,
# sudo aptitude install skype

Thats it. Skype works perfectly.

you could probably leave the “libpulse0″, “gst.reamer0.10-pulseaudio” client packages and skype will still work.

anyway, obvisouly if you use pulse (as a server) extensively then don’t remove those, but for me I don’t give a crap !, alsa, oss,… are more than good enough for me and I need skype
err atleast until EKIGA can get rid of skype -that would be good.

By: Rene Hasekamp

Rene Hasekamp — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:50:29 +0000

Hi,
I did not look through all the answers, but here is my solution:
What you did in alsamixer is OK. But the real solution is (or was with me) that both e-mike and i-mike were muted on my computer by default:
Click the loudspeaker icon near the clock, choose “volume control” and see if the mikes are muted (little red cross over them). That’s it!

By: Bhagya

Bhagya — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:19:04 +0000

I dn’t knw how to work with it ….
Sound capture isn’t workin in Sound Preferences …..
can anyone help me ??
my mail is bhagyapwc@yahoo.com
tks!!

By: Arik

Arik — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:08:57 +0000

Thanks man

By: Arik

Arik — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:07:26 +0000

Worked for me on thinkpadx30 ubuntu 9.04 desktop edition!

By: hynek

hynek — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:22:35 +0000

I’m probably too slow and thick but on my freshly and for the 3rd time installed UBUNTU9.04 I can’t get hold of Skype regardless what advice I followed. Once I managed to get Skype icon but I couldn’t register because the middle button “sign up” wasn’t active, only the side ones, “close and reset” would work but for my purpose it was useless since I needed to sign up. Now I’m getting again message about wrong architecture of “amd64″. Can anybody put it to me simply? I don’t want to go again blindly to package installer and install anything I think would fit.
Thank you

By: morteza

morteza — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:07:36 +0000

hi evrybody,
I have a hp paviliion dv6 and I use ubuntu 9.04 recently. Now I have a problem about sound card.
ubuntu 9.04 know my sound card but when I click on buttom for test output I don’t hear any thing.
please help me, how should I do?

By: John Doe

John Doe — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:28:44 +0000

On my Toshiba Portege R500
I had to change the input source in capture settings from cmd line alsa mixer. Changed it from Mic to Front Mic and yes, i could use Skype on Ubuntu 9.04

By: unifex

unifex — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:53:50 +0000

hi, thanks for the info. Makes me very happy I’m not running Ubuntu!

By: Fabian

Fabian — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:58:15 +0000

Here the solution
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578

By: skype

skype — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:21:37 +0000

agree to Amit and nick.
Mic on HDA Intel (hw:Intel,0)
and speaker on pulse.

have to correct my post from may 9th were I said that I had put both on pulse.
Thanks!

By: nick

nick — Sun, 17 May 2009 11:07:37 +0000

>i sound like a robot.
I also had this problem until i reseted the options in skype.
MIC on: HDA…
Speaker on: pulse

By: Amit

Amit — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:03:11 +0000

Hi all,

Skype is working.I had to choose “HW:Intel,0″ as the input device.

Thanks,
Amit

By: Amit

Amit — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:46:14 +0000

Hi,

I’m running kubuntu 9.04 and I followed similar steps when i tried to configure my mic.

For output and ringing, I’ve chosen default device.

For input, I have “HW Intel:0″ and “HW intel:6″ as possible sources.

I tried choosing both input sources as Input device. Still no luck :/

The output modules are working as I can play DVDs and listen to Music.

I configured alsamixer too and chose “Front Mic” as input source in Alsamixer as well as in Kmix, my default sound mixer

My sound card has an Intel HDA audio chipset and my computer is a HP DV6700t laptop.

Can anyone tell me if there is something I’m missing?

Many thanks for your help.

Amit M

By: ivainsencher

ivainsencher — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:45:36 +0000

why do I need to spend hours to have (and still don’t) skype working properly? it used to, I managed to follow one of the instructions (sorry, I’m just a human and can’t really reproduce the steps), but then, on 1st reboot, all gone:-(

By: skype

skype — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:04:45 +0000

seems like it is working now. only difference is I put sound in and sound out in skype settings on pulse.

By: Fanuel Chinda

Fanuel Chinda — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:52:58 +0000

Thanks a lot i managed to get mine working am running on Ubuntu 8.10

By: mugiwara

mugiwara — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:11:46 +0000

thank you for your help, it’s working!

By: markg85

markg85 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:02:54 +0000

oke, some interesting things going on here.
Some people report that it’s working and some say it isn’t working.

In the case of: White Castel, i would say you missed a step or did something wrong since you got it working partly. In all other cases you will just have to try this howto and if it’s working afterwards : Awesome! otherwise: bad luck but i’m out of ideas.

@Giuliano, your suggestion to remove pulseaudio and use also only is probably going to work for everyone that already has a working microphone BUT remember that you will ose all pulseaudio functionallity and that is something i personal rather avoid since it does offer some nice things (provided that it’s working!) With todays ubuntu you should be able to get it working and the way to get it working is described in this howto.

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:03:37 +0000

After hours of frustration, your solution worked liked a charm. Sound Recorder and Skype working perfectly. Many thanks.

By: White Castel

White Castel — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:44:24 +0000

Afeter folowing all the steps my microphone is working. I mean, when I speak, I can hear my voice in the spekers. However, I still can’t record in gnome-sound-recorder nor in the Skype test call (it was too easy to install it this time).

By: Giuliano

Giuliano — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:21:20 +0000

Definive solution for me in a Ubuntu 9.04 i386: UNINSTALL Pulseaudio.
It also fixes other sound issues
Enjoy with ALSA!!!

By: markg85

markg85 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:13:07 +0000

Joel,

all i can suggest you is to follow the howto that i posted… If that isn’t working then i’m out of ideas for now

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:26:54 +0000

Hi!
My microphone was working great before upgrade to 9.04 but now (atleast in skype) it works well but it randomly starts lagging and i sound like a robot. Any solutions?

By: markg85

markg85 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:59:42 +0000

@Deggial,

All i can sugest you is follow my howto. Perhaps the most important step is the part where gnome sound config part and inside that the Sound capture: options. make sure you test out every single option in that dropdown.

By: Deggial

Deggial — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:57:31 +0000

Thanks for your description!
however, my microphone does not work since 8.10, and now that i upgraded to 9.04 it still doesn’t work… by any chance perhaps you know something i could do to make it work? in the forums my thread for help has no replies

Thanks!

By: markg85

markg85 — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:18:44 +0000

Tibor,

Like said in my post.
press ALT + F2 then type in gnome-terminal
once in there (that’s a console) type in alsamixer and you will see roughly the same as what you see here in the screenshots.

Good luck,
Mark

By: Tibor

Tibor — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:57:49 +0000

Mark,

I am novice and trying to follow the steps you have described. How can one change the alsamixer settings in the panels?

By: James Cornell

James Cornell — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:18:12 +0000

dpkg –force-architecture skype-pkg.deb is another method since all the 64-bit version does is prefer 32-bit qt compatibility libraries over native

By: markg85

markg85 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:16:41 +0000

here: http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu-amd64

By: kardenal mendoza

kardenal mendoza — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:59:43 +0000

hi, sorry to pester.

where did you get the 64 bit version of skype?

i just installed 9.04 but cant seem to find a version of skype for 64 bit os? all the official copies for linux complain about the `wrong arch` – i am assumming they are 32 bit?

kardenal

By: markg85

markg85 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:33:42 +0000

What makes you think i used alsa?
If your referring to the Sound Preferences screenshot where ALSA is indeed selected for “Sound capture:” then that’s because by default it’s on that. i changed that to HDA Intel something. The rest of the audio stuff is still using the defaults (which are pulseaudio) from ubuntu 9.04

Cheers,
Mark

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:18:00 +0000

Hi Mark,

how come you used alsa and not pulse?

took me a while but i got skype + pulse working on 9.04 x86

Cheers

Justin