If you are using Skype on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon) on a Dell D630 and have the “famous” internal microphone problems due to the HD-Intel chipset, I’ve found a simple solution, sort of.
I recently bought a Plantronics .Audio 470 headset at Best Buy for $50. Its a nice headset with good sound quality and a good mic that is also fold-able for good portability.
That headset also comes with a USB adapter which allows you to basically get a USB based sound card so you can use that headset with machines without a sound card (or a problematic sound card/chipset…).
" doc_version: "1" last_updated: "2017-06-02" date: 2008-03-11 tags: [dell, dell d630, gutsy gibbon, hd-intel, mic problems, microphone problems, skype, Ubuntu, ubuntu 7.10, ubuntu gusty gibbon] canonical: "https://eran.sandler.co.il/2008/03/11/solution-sort-of-mic-problems-with-skype-on-dell-d630-and-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon/" --- ## Sitemap - [Home](https://eran.sandler.co.il/) If you are using Skype on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon) on a Dell D630 and have the “famous” internal microphone problems due to the HD-Intel chipset, I’ve found a simple solution, sort of.
I recently bought a [Plantronics .Audio 470 headset][1] at Best Buy for $50. Its a nice headset with good sound quality and a good mic that is also fold-able for good portability.
That headset also comes with a USB adapter which allows you to basically get a USB based sound card so you can use that headset with machines without a sound card (or a problematic sound card/chipset…).
It seems that Ubuntu works well with that adapter. Ubuntu recognizes it as another sound device, as if you have another sound card attached. I attached it, run Skype and configured Skype to use that newly found sound device for incoming and outgoing voice chats and it just worked.
I managed to call people, they heard me well and everything was fine.
The only downside was that it works only in mono, for some reason, so I only heard sound on the left side (