How to get the ES1 523 microphone to work in linux.

I am on a centos 7 system, and have gone through the steps listed at https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1379587 but am still unable to get audio recording/skype calls working on my laptop

Any help is appreciated.

System Information is as follows.
% arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC233 Analog [ALC233 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

% head /proc/asound/card*/codec#*
==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 <==
Codec: Realtek ALC233
Address: 0
AFG Function Id: 0x1 (unsol 1)
Vendor Id: 0x10ec0235
Subsystem Id: 0x1025108a
Revision Id: 0x100002
No Modem Function Group found
Default PCM:
    rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
    bits [0xe]: 16 20 24

==> /proc/asound/card1/codec#0 <==
Codec: ATI R6xx HDMI
Address: 0
AFG Function Id: 0x1 (unsol 0)
Vendor Id: 0x1002aa01
Subsystem Id: 0x00aa0100
Revision Id: 0x100500
No Modem Function Group found
Default PCM:
    rates [0x70]: 32000 44100 48000
    bits [0x2]: 16

Full system data is available at
http://pastebin.centos.org/685501/