Not sure what to suggest next...
Have you seen this.?

Thanks, I hadn't seen that but it seems I have a microphone/recording problem that is more fundamental than Skype related.


Using some of that info I can make the microphone output go from unconnected silence to connected hiss, but no more.


Have to keep Googling I guess...

Hi, I just wanted to share how I solved my mic problem with Skype.  I have LL 1.0.8 in 2017 on Acer Aspire one.  To give my condition, microphone was working fine after going to $ gstreamer-properties to fix it. https://askubuntu.com/questions/163729/m...g-in-skype

Mic for skype was however still not working. then I found this page:
http://www.zyxware.com/articles/4857/sol...lenovo-b40

I found many forum about this topic and many involved killing pluseaudio, etc, which I am not competent to do.  This simple processes did it for me; hope this helps others also.  Best

Thanks, that is very interesting indeed, and something I certainly never came across while troubleshooting my problem.

Grrrrrrr, PulseAudio.  It was in Beta when it was first imposed on Ubuntu-derived distros.  I used to just remove it and replace it with ALSA, but it's more complicated now, so many applications have PulseAudio as a dependency.  Killing it (but leaving it's dead body in place, so to speak, by not uninstalling it) usually still works for fixing some applications that depend on it.