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| 1425486 | 2016-09-10 06:25:00 | You have a lot of input choices and again the GUI does no justice for me, they really did dumb it down extremely. All I can assume is you have a tv tuner card with audio input, a front and rear mic input and a line in. So your cam/mic is the iLuv iCM10, you need to tinker with that mic, probably unmute it. Dead right again Kame. :thumbs: Yep, the Camera/Mike is an iLuv and there is a Hauppauge TV card sitting in a pci slot not connected to anything. It works fine with Win 7 using Media Centre, but Media Centre is not supported by Win 10 which is why I want to be able to switch back to Win 7. Anyway, inbetween other matters I figured not knowing what I’m doing might have screwed things properly so I formatted and reinstalled. Alas I fixed nothing. So the imediate problems are: Firefox is as slow as a wet week and sites time out or can’t be found. To this end I wondered if there might be a WiFi problem so I thought I’d do a Speed Test but nope. Speed Tests require Flash or Shockwave and it’s not installed even though I saw it mentioned during the installation. I also saw Skype mentioned during installation but cant find it installed either. I’ve searched for the Camera and for the Sound, thinking also that the Mic may be muted but damed if I can find where they’re hidden. The problem is that so many things rely on others where do you start? Personally, I’d like to check the internet speed to make sure that’s not what is stuffing Firefox, but that it seems requires Flash. Get that out of the way and move onto Skype are my thoughts. What’s your thoughts? :) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425487 | 2016-09-10 09:41:00 | Try testmy.net for your speedtest. Select the server in Sydney - the closest one to us. | rumpty (2863) | ||
| 1425488 | 2016-09-10 12:19:00 | OK, we need to find out more about your hardware, especially the wifi adapter you're using. You haven't said how you are connecting to the internet, USB adapter possibly? If so, what make/model is it? Or are you connected to the router via ethernet? There are some USB wifi adapters that don't work very well in Linux. I'm going to assume you have a USB wifi adapter. Oh dear, here comes the dreaded command line! :eek: Open a terminal prompt (click on the Menu button and type terminal). Click on the link on the right to start the terminal. Type lsusb on the command line and press enter. Copy and paste the output here in your reply. |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 1425489 | 2016-09-10 14:06:00 | Also, the output of inxi -Ai might tell us more about your audio and network hardware. | Rod J (451) | ||
| 1425490 | 2016-09-10 23:19:00 | The iLUV mic is the first entry in your screenshot not the one highlighted in green. Have found this utility that may help with the camera side of things community.linuxmint.com |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1425491 | 2016-09-11 00:11:00 | Sorry about the delay getting back guys but I had to transfer the screen shots to a flash drive and reply from my laptop as I couldn't upload more than one screenshot to here without it locking up. rumpty an Rod first: 7417 7418 7419 Note the typo's :) Dave, I take a look at that link and be back. :thanks |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425492 | 2016-09-11 00:16:00 | Should have confirmed, yes Wireless to Fibre Rod. | B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425493 | 2016-09-11 01:47:00 | Whilst trying to sort this machine out I was reading all sorts of stuff on Google and came across the correct way to install Skype. What the hell give it a go. Well, epic fail, but here is a screenshot of the outcome for those of you who understand these things. Just thought there might be a clue there as to the other problems? 7420 |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425494 | 2016-09-11 02:00:00 | Actually sudo apt-get install skype is the correct way to install skype from the terminal, so kudos to you for getting that right. :thumbs: It may have failed though because I think your internet connection isn't working correctly. I'm just now having a look see at problems there might be with the Realtek RTL8188CUS USB adapter. The internet speed test you posted before is showing the Upload speed (very impressive BTW), but I think your problem may be the download speed. | Rod J (451) | ||
| 1425495 | 2016-09-11 02:43:00 | I was going to suggest, as the terminal output above suggested, try updating/upgrading first. BUT, the terminal output says 415 packages to upgrade??? Something is wrong, there's no way you should be needing that many updates on a newly installed new release of Mint. I just now am upgrading my older Mint install (17.2 Cinnamon) which hasn't been updated in ages and it only needs 39 packages updated. Which ISO did you download ... not a developer testing version I hope because they get zillions of updates. |
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