microphone only works for first skype call under fc6

[Andy Green]

David L wrote:

> The microphone doesn't work the second time I place a call in a Skype 
> session.  If I exit skype and restart it, it works for one call again.  
> Has anybody else seen this problem?  The weird thing is that the same 
> exact skype executable works fine from the Ubuntu live CD (I mounted my 
> fc6 home directory from Ubuntu and ran the skype executable).

Can be some problem with Alsa, kernel or libs I guess.  Use

lsof -n | grep /dev/snd

to see if anything has ahold of the Alsa devices.  Also run

dmesg

to see if there's any mention of troubles.

-Andy