GREEN PIRATE

Notorious rival gang cartels known as MPAA and RIAA which experts believe got it’s start when entertainment producers and lawyers in Hollywood teamed up to find ways of exploiting copyright law to extract money from unwary citizens, have grown into out of control cartels with a sphere of influence reaching as high up as the President of the US and many other leaders of other nations.

These cartels have grown so powerful that they have powers “above the law” so to speak. They can have people incarcerated for publicly indexing hash strings or demand that ICE seizes domains, blocking global access to a website based on an accusation of copyright infringement without requiring an investigation or trial.
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To those who wish to make a living by distributing creative content under copyright licensing, here is a recent quote from Mike Masnick; an adult who realizes his own responsibility to make a living in the modern world.

I put “labor and time and money” into Techdirt, and then it’s my job to figure out how to make a living out of it. It does me no good to sit around and say “but I worked hard — now pay me.”

Now here’s one from me, your average, unabashed non-commercial file-sharer (‘pirate’ for short):
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Mic Doesn’t work with Skype on your Ubuntu linux machine? It took me a while to find this solution and it seems to be a common problem. So, hoping it is also a common solution, I will now share it with you few, poor bastards who are reading this asking “how the hell do I get my mic to work?”

Edit: This fix still applies in Ubuntu 11.10.

Specify the module you are using in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.

For my Inspiron 1501, I appended this module to the end of the alsa-base.config file:

options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m26

Those steps definitely needed to be taken, but in order to get the mic capture to work  on my Dell Inspiron 1501 with the STAC92XX module, there was one more setting to be adjusted to solve this issue.

/var/lib/alsa/asound.state

Make sure the capture switch value is set to true.

Run alsamixer in terminal, press F5 to show all, select the capture volume bar and press spacebar to active/unmute it.

Skype should now accept your microphone input. You may need to go into Skype options and turn of the automatic volume adjustment thing.