On some Acer computers, the inbuilt microphone doesn’t work with Ubuntu out of the box. For programs like Skype this means that you need to use headphone.
One solution that sometimes works is to start the program with Pulse working from a local host using the following command:
/bin/sh -c "PULSE_SERVER=127.0.0.1 program-name"
I am a Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge, where I teach and conduct research in the Digital Humanities, Digital Cultural Heritage, English Philology, and Book History. You can read more about me by following this link.
My university site (which contains syllabi and the like) can be found by following this link. Most of the non-course related material from that site can be found here.
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