SkypeMACMate for USB phone Audio problems

Hi,
Not sure where to post this.
A friend of mine has a Voip cordless phone (Senda SE-W1D) he no longer uses with Windows driver. I'm interesting in buying it off him if I can get it to work. i downloaded SkyeMACMate and managed to get the phone connected to Skype. I could see me contacts, dial numbers etc. on the phone, only that I couldn't hear anything. I turned on the USB device option in Skye, but still nothing. Then I turned on the USB device in the system preferences and managed to hear the dialing tone it makes as it dials the number, but as soon as it finished dialing everything went silent again..
has anyone any ideas what it could be?
And surely there must be a way of using the phone without turning off the inbuilt speakers of the iMac
Cheers
Manuel

I found the answer on Skype form. Apparently there is an audio problem with the latest version of Skype. I downloaded the previous version (2.5.0.85) and it now works fine.

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I would like to say first off that this is my first build so please go a little easy on me. I am computer literate and i ave searched around trying to find the answers but for some reason they elude me. I am a Apple person at heart but when it comes right done to it windows is better for the HTPC side of things (not to mention the room mate agreed to pay for most of the computer). The specs are in the sig but if anything else is needed let me know.
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pin 3: Negative Signal 1
pin 4: Negative Signal 2
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pin 6: Positive Signal 2
pin 7: Ground 1
pin 8: Ground 2
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pin 5: USB0+
pin 6: USB1+
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pin 2: Mic power
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pin 5: Front left
pin 6: Rear right
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pin 2: Ground
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pin 9: Analong port 2 - left channel
pin 10: Jack detection return from front panel (jack 2)
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Quote from: Maesus on 04-February-07, 02:41:18
For USB, do not connect the pin-10.
The audio is a tough one. The 10 pins on the motherboard actually only gives 2 ports. But your chassis has 3 ports. So no matter how you connect them, you only have 2 ports functional. Use the Realtek HD Audio Manager, sort of like the audio control panel. Enable the front ports, and start testing your speakers/mic and see if they work fine. I expect you to come back and tell us how to configure the pins later.
Thats the thing about the USB. I don't have a wire or anything going to the 10 pin. It seems like it should just be a matter of connecting the block and being done with it. I don't get why it is not working.
As for the audio. I will messa with it a little more but i don't really much care it is works or not. While it would be nice I don't really plan on using it.
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Workaround for some W510 Audio Problems. Lenovo, please take a look at this!

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Dear Sir / Madam
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I have submitted my handset again at Redington on 26th July 2012 and they have given me the estimate of Rs. 4200 to change the housing of the handset. Before that I have given my handset at Redington for the same audio problem on 14th Mar 2012, 16th Jan 2011 & also give while the handset was in warranty period, but the problem is still same.
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I have purchased the Blackberry as it is the brand name and for the service but I am really disappointed by such kind of worst service.
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All 3 of my USB audio microphones/headsets do not work with my 2013 iMac running Mavericks
All 3 of these microphones/headsets worked fine with my 2008 Mac Pro running Mountain Lion
All 3 of these microphones/headsets work fine with my 2013 Macbook Air running Mavericks
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I've got a VoIP USB Phone for Skype (form SPC telecom). It brings a CM109 chipset. The case is that this phone only works in XP (SPC provides you only the driver for XP) although I was almost able to make it run in Linux-Ubuntu Hardy with some additional tools. I would like to use it in Mac however I do not have the drivers. I was looking for in the net but C-Media.com.tw web site is off (where it is supposed to be the driver for this common chipset)
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Hey gang-
When I'm on the road, my iPhone is plugged into the USB port on my car stereo. This charges the phone and allows me to play iPod content and hear GPS commands over the car audio. Love it!
But what I can't do is hear phone audio that way. When I get a call, the Ring Tone does indeed play over the car speakers. But as soon as I answer, the caller audio plays only to the iPhone ear speaker or over the phone main Speaker- but never over the USB audio output.
Is there any way or any app that would enable this?
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I want to clarify and correctly set up my ThinkPad T61 sound system finally.
I'm running Arch64 + KDE.
There are two sound cards - the internal HDA Intel and external USB CM118.
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Set [C-Media USB Headphone Set], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
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First of all, why are there both analog and digital subdevices?
I just need playback and/or recording support for these applications: opera, firefox, skype, clementine, mplayer, vmplayer. As high quality as possible.
Per-application sound control would be nice but if that adds too much clutter, I could live without it. No need for audio streaming or any other luxuries.
All the applications should use the USB card whenever it's plugged in. The internal SC should take over when CM118 is unplugged.
The problem is that most of the time it doesn't work. For example, if I plug out the USB card and then run some application like Clementine or Firefox there would be no sound ("connection refused" in Clementine).
Here is my asound.conf:
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.card 0
Also kMix/amix should switch the master channel from HDA Intel Master to C-Media Master automatically. The only way to do this is to write some kind of script, right?
AFAIK the following audio components are installed: ALSA, OSS (for some unknown reason), Phonon, Gstreamer.
I guess I can uninstall OSS without worries as no one seems to need it (checked with "whoneeds").
What about that Phonon? Would it override the asoud.conf if I set default device there? Why there are so many different devices in the Phonon configuration list:
C-Media USB Headphone Set, USB Audio (Default Audio Device)
C-Media USB Headphone Set (USB Audio)
C-Media USB Headphone Set, USB Audio (IECblablabla)
hw:1,0
hw:1,1
default
Intel Analog
Intel Digital
blablalba
And that C-Media triplet for every USB port the CM118 has been plugged in.
Too much confusion! All that mess for just two different cards.
So what is the proper way of setting primary and secondary sound cards in this situation?
Thank you!
Last edited by andrisll (2012-07-19 08:48:28)

I am sorry for my very late response and the lack of structure in my post.
I did some investigation and found a rather acceptable workaround for one of my problems described below.
Here is the basic functionality I need:
1. Automatic (on the fly) switching to the external sound card when it's plugged in and automatic fallback to the integrated SC when usb is unplugged.
2. Automatic (on the fly) switching of the kMix's master channel according to the changes mentioned above.
As for the first problem, I found this udev rule:
KERNEL=="pcmC[D0-9cp]*", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#pcmC}; K=$${K%%D*}; echo defaults.ctl.card $$K > /etc/asound.conf; echo defaults.pcm.card $$K >>/etc/asound.conf"
KERNEL=="pcmC[D0-9cp]*", ACTION=="remove", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'echo defaults.ctl.card 0 > /etc/asound.conf; echo defaults.pcm.card 0 >>/etc/asound.conf'"
This solution has some disadvantages but it is acceptible. If you know of any better solution, please tell me.
For the second problem, I found this script which uses qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster method to set the master channel. However, I think that constant monitoring for the usb SC being plugged is not very effective. So I thought appending the following code to the second line of the previous udev rule would do the work:
, RUN+="/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster "ALSA::C-Media_USB_Headphone_Set:1" "Speaker:0""
But that results in some weird behaviour: master channel stays the same but there would be three new tabs in the kMix window now: USB Set", USB Set# and USB Set$.
Here's what log messages tell us:
07/14/12 12:25:13 PM localhost kernel [10889.749048] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 13 using uhci_hcd
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost kernel [10889.914921] input: C-Media USB Headphone Set as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.3/input/input21
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost kernel [10889.915454] generic-usb 0003:0D8C:000C.000C: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [C-Media USB Headphone Set ] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-1/input3
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe checking bus 3, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1"
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe checking bus 3, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1"
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe checking bus 3, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1"
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe checking bus 3, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-1"
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe bus: 3, device: 13 was not an MTP device
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe bus: 3, device: 13 was not an MTP device
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe bus: 3, device: 13 was not an MTP device
07/14/12 12:25:14 PM localhost mtp-probe bus: 3, device: 13 was not an MTP device
You see, the probe thing is running multiple times!
And here is an excerpt from udev debugger:
starting '/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster '
'/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster '(err) 'Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11'
'/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster ' [2769] exit with return code 1
'/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmix /Mixers org.kde.KMix.MixSet.setCurrentMaster '(err) 'Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11'
Some kind of X11 problem... And also happening twice! Why?
Running the setCurrentMaster method in terminal works very nicely, so the problem must be the way udev runs it.
One last thing - sometimes the usb SC automatically reconnects (disconnects and connects). I read somewhere that most probably the usb device makes the trouble, but maybe there are other possiblities?
Last edited by andrisll (2012-07-14 10:04:16)

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