Skype mucking with igain on Audigy 2 value

[Karl-Petter Åkesson]

Hi,

do not know if this will help you or not but its worth a try. I have not 
used Skype on any *nix machine but I have struggled a bit with it on 
windows. The default windows installation comes with some settings which 
is set so Skype acts "smart". One of these is the adaptive mic gain. 
Skype will adjust your mic level dynamically to a level what Skype 
believes is good. To minimize feedback from speakers and record your 
voice at a good level. Your description of the problem sounds like this 
is happening to you, though Skype fails to be smart due to some reason. 
Have you tried to uncheck "Let skype adjust my sound device settings"? 
Its under Sound Devices. Do not know if this exists in the *nix version 
or not but it could be worth looking for.

/Kalle

Al Muckart wrote:
> 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.
>