@Skype users: What's your (working) config?

Sorry for this extra-thread, but I'm not able to skype with friends because they never hear me.
Here is my config: ALSA with /etc/asound.conf + /etc/libao.conf
Listening to mpd, watching a movie in mplayer + a flash-clip in opera works wonderfully (thanks to "aoss opera").
There are 3 methods to start skype (from cmdline):
1. plain old "skype"
2. "aoss skype"
3. skype_dsp_hijacker
Neither of them changes the result that i hear the ringing if I call a friend, but they can't hear me.
The permissions on my /dev/dsp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 11. Mai 13:55 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 11. Mai 13:55 /dev/sound/dsp
Of course, my user IS in the audio-group.
what do I do wrong?

I have them in my custom kernel
CONFIG_SND=y
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM=y
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_SUPPORT_OLD_API=y
# Generic devices
CONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=m
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m
CONFIG_SND_AC97_BUS=m
# PCI devices
CONFIG_SND_ENS1370=y
CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX=m
OSS-Emulation (with alsa) seems to work since (as already said  ) i CAN listen to mpd and watch flash-movies in opera (when i started opera with "aoss opera").
I've played with oss2jack before I got dmix working, but had no success with it. I may try it again...

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