Skype mucking with igain on Audigy 2 value

[Al Muckart]

Hi all,

I'm having a hellishly frustrating time trying to get a soundcard in my box 
that works with skype. I'm about ready to throw my whole box out the window 
and go buy a mac or something that Just Works.

I have an Asus A8N VM CSM, with an onboard Intel HDA soundcard which is sadly  
unusable, even with Ariff's drivers. The main problem being that I can't 
record anything with it.

I have disabled the onboard soundcard in BIOS and installed a Creative Audigy 
2 value. I'm driving that using the emu10kx-20051021 driver from ports. It 
works fine for playback and recording, but for some reason whenever skype is 
playing sound the igain mixer control drops until it is at the point where 
sounds recorded in the mic are inaudible. No other app does this so it looks 
like a skype issue.

I've tried skype-devel out of ports, but I can't make any kind of call with 
that at all.

Can anyone offer suggestions as to what I can do to fix this?

Thanks.
-- 
Al.
http://where.else.net.nz