With Ubuntu 9.10, based on my experience, sounds work at the same time for multiple devices. If you have Ubuntu 9.10 and Skype 2.1 beta, all you have to do to get the microphone to work is, right click on the volume icon in the top panel next to the date & time, select preferences, click on the input tab, uncheck the mute option next to input volume, if it’s checked. Now talk over the microphone and see if there are any movements in the bars next to input level. If not, click on the connector option and try with other options available there. For me, the default option and Microphone 1 didn’t work. Microphone 2 worked. You’ll see the movement in the vertical bars next to input level. Once you get that working, Skype should work fine.
So it seems. How can I force my install of 9.10 to detect it?
I just found this blog posting.
For some reason, I don’t see the connector option in my sound preferences?
Any clue as to what may be going on?
running 9.10 on a asus 1201n eeepc
I’m not sure. Is it because Ubuntu didn’t detect your microphone?
Hi Arun,
Thanks a lot for your topic about the microphones ! About one week ago I installed ubuntu 9.10 on an old PC I got from a friend. Before I always used the Microsoft stuff as it was already installed on the PC I bought before. And why change things which “work” if your not an expert ?
As I don’t like the monopoly position of MS, I decided to go for Linux. For 2 days I am experimenting now with “empathy” and “skype”(which I installed separately). I was wondering why the microphone didn’t work. I read a lot of things, but nothing what could help me until I found your topic. It solved the problem in less then 3 minutes. So now I can tackle the next problem….
Once again,
Thanks,
Michel
You are welcome. Welcome to the world of open source.