FC6 Skype Howto?

[Zoltan Szabo]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:02:59 +0100
"Joe Desbonnet" <joe at galway.net> wrote:

> I just cannot get Skype to pickup audio from the mic with FC6. I see
> others have had the same problem, but I can't find any definitive
> HOWTO on the matter.
> 
> Let just say I've just installed FC6 fresh from dist, applied updates
> and got the latest (version 1.3.0_53) Skype RPM for FC5 and installed
> that. I know that my sound hardware and mic work (because it works
> perfectly with Windows).
> 
> So what do I do/check next?
> 
> 
> As an aside: Is there *any* easy way to verify that the mic is working
> and enabled with FC6? A simple audio recorder or sound level meter? I
> would have expected this in system-config-soundcard and/or the volume
> control applet. Predictably the Gnome help yields nothing on this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe.

A solution, which works here for Skype:
1)Install kmix: "yum install kmultimedia".
2)On the input tab of kmix, turn mic and capture on.

Z.