Ubuntu
pulseaudio package

cannot set the microphone to use the internal microphone on a Dell Mini 9 in karmic

Bug #414215 reported by Jeff Fortin Tam on 2009-08-15

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GNOME media utilities	Unknown	High	gnome-bugs #592831
	pulseaudio (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have a Mini 9 running Ubuntu 8.10. It has a microphone jack on the side and an internal built-in microphone. Both inputs work correctly and can be set using gnome-volume-control.

The default setup of Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 4, however, with the new gnome-volume-control 2.28, does not allow setting which one of the two inputs I want to use. It only sees one (which turns out to be the microphone jack). Furthermore, the "input level:" meter doesn't preview the sound correctly when a microphone is plugged into that jack, although it should (because gnome-sound-recorder seems to record fine from it, with its vumeter also showing up the input sound correctly).

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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote on 2009-08-15:

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As you can see in the alsamixer window, there are two inputs. Only one is shown in the sound prefs.

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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote on 2009-08-15:

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description:

updated

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-08-23

Changed in gnome-media:
status:	Unknown → New

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2009-08-25

Changed in gnome-media (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote on 2009-09-10:

Upstream said this is a pulseaudio bug, not gnome-media.

affects:

gnome-media (Ubuntu) → pulseaudio (Ubuntu)

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razor7 (ghiamar) wrote on 2009-12-22:

Hi...have you tryed installing linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic?

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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) wrote on 2009-12-22:

Actually I think this was due to configuration cruft from previous releases. Namely, gstreamer-properties was incorrectly set to use a specific alsa device instead of just pointing to pulseaudio.