Akshay Dua

• Select “PulseAudio Sound Server” for the ‘Sound Capture’ option in System->Preferences->Sound
  
  

  Select the correct sound server

• Enable the correct devices in volume preferences (the volume preferences window can be opened by clicking the button called ‘Preferences’ in the Volume Control console). On my Thinkpad X61, I enabled the ‘Internal Mic’.
  
  

  Select devices and enable capture in volume preferences

• Next, enable capturing sound from the device; also in volume preferences. I checked the following,
  • Capture
  • Input Source
• In the ‘Recording’ tab (comes into view when ‘Capture’ is selected as described above), make sure that capturing is not muted (the little mic does not have a red ‘x’ on it)
• Also make sure that in the ‘Playback’ tab the ‘Internal Mic’ is not muted (little speaker at the bottom should not have a red ‘x’ on it)
  
  

  Make sure microphone is not muted

• In the ‘Options’ tab (comes into view when ‘Input Source’ is selected as described above), select ‘Internal Mic’.
  
  

  Input Options must have the correct device set

• This should get the mic and recording going. You can test it using Applications->Sound & Video->Sound Recroder
• Now start ‘Skype’. In the options dialog, sound devices section, select the pulse device for each drop down except ‘Sound In’. Selecting pulse for ‘Sound In’ actually works as well but the quality is poor for some reason, so select the actual device. In my case it was HDA Intel ...
  
  

  Set Skype options for sound devices

• That’s it! just try the Skype test call and hopefully things should work.

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