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@Lucian-V: that'd be great... thanks!
I get the same error as you when i run pulseaudio as root.
just for the record, I'm running a frugal-install (yay!), just in case it has anything to do with that
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@Luciano-V: any success with the configuration?
I cant get it to work, it'd be great if someone could try/report somewhat
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K3nn3th - I've tried the solution on 5 different machines (3 PCs and 2 laptops).
It worked on one of the laptops and one of the PCs. And I still don't know why, so I avoided reporting it in a thread until I have a definite solution.
Essentially, what I did was to remove anything related to ALSA (except ALSA Player) and then install only pulse audio after full reboot. This worked on 2 of 5 computers.
Then I started to try to trick pulseaudio into using ALSA settings while keeping Skype believing it's using pulseaudio. This gotten me an even worse result - I got it running only on one of 5 computers.
So yeah... it's gonna take me some more time until I figure it out.
I didn't forget about it, it's just that the damn thing is far more complicated than I imagined. Besides, I've been flooded with writing requests lately so I've been busy - mind you, I'm not a Linux dev, it's just Linux is an older passion of mine 
When I'll have a solution (and I'll be working on that) - I'll post it. If someone else does it before me, then even better.
Cheers.
P.S.: You can try what I tried as well and see - maybe you are amongst the lucky ones and my highly imperfect sollutions happen to work on your machine(s).
Use skype 4.3.0.37 with pulseaudio:
http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/issue-with-pulseaudio#post-37164
Slitaz-4.0 : http://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/packages/backports/pulseaudio-5.0.tazpkg
Slitaz-5.0 : http://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/packages/5.0/pulseaudio-5.0.tazpkg
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Plugging a mic into my motherboards sound card didn't work until I toggled on/raised capture level:
Open alsamixer, F5 key, right arrow to scroll to capture, use space bar to toggle on/off:
Toggle Capture(red) on raise Capture level with up arrow key
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Same here. Skype playback is OK after installing apulse but mic does not work. Tried with Audacity and mhWaveEdit but no input signal recorded. However tapping on the mic does generate audible noise on the speakers. Ouput of amixer is as follows,
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Capture 31 [100%] [30.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Capture 31 [100%] [30.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
Item0: 'Disabled'
Simple mixer control 'Digital',0
Capabilities: cvolume
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 120
Front Left: Capture 119 [99%] [29.50dB]
Front Right: Capture 119 [99%] [29.50dB]
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@gdesilva
[c]amixer | grep off[/c]
Your capture is [off]
Toggle on Capture:
[c]amixer set Capture cap[/c]
Toggle off Capture:
[c]amixer set Capture nocap[/c]
If alsa sets up multiple captures this only toggles default 0
Capture devices > 0 must be specified
Toggle on Capture device 1:
[c]amixer set 'Capture',1 cap[/c]
Toggle off Capture device 1:
[c]amixer set 'Capture',1 nocap[/c]
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@mojo - thanks for the tip. Capture now works fine with mhWaveEdit and Audacity but still cannot get it to work with Skype. Is there a simpler way to check pulseaudio settings? Thanks again.
PS. Cannot understand why capture was set to off as I made sure that it was on and set high on alsamixer!
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Tried some of the suggestions given at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture/Troubleshooting#Setting_the_default_microphone.2Fcapture_device
still without success.
Others having similar issues may want to check out the above link.
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Use skype 4.3.0.37 with pulseaudio;
http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/issue-with-pulseaudio#post-37164
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Many thanks mojo - works like a charm. You saved many frustrating hours of fiddling around with apulse.
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