Sound recording not working on jaunty

[John Rose]

Speaker works (either using speakers or on cheapo phone device or on headset) but not sound capturing (i.e. me speaking) on cheapo phone device or headset. I've also tried a USB webcam which shows picture but does not capture sound either. I've tested this on both skype making a test call and making a real call using skype. I then tried Sound Recorder from the Sound & Video menu. That does not record. I've tried this all on both a laptop & a desktop.

I've also tried configuring Gnome Volume Control, System Preferences Sound & Skype Options Sound as per:
http://www.johannes-eva.net/index.php?page=skype_jaunty

I've looked at the webpage giving details about required actions for sound problems. It looks out of date as it only refers to alsa not pulse audio.

[John Rose (johnaaronrose)]

I should have mentioned that this applies to upgrades from ibex to jaunty. Solution to this problem is detailed on Ubuntu Geek website. Essentially it involves downloading a bunch of packages (e.g. pdadevchooser) and then configuring sound using pdadevchooser app & System Preferences Sound.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi John,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid.

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 368541

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[John Rose (johnaaronrose)]

AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: administrator 3769 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xc0000000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9200'
   Components : 'HDA:14f12bfa,14f100c3,00090000 HDA:83847690,102801f5,00102201'
   Controls : 7
   Simple ctrls : 5
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=47307559-ba52-4b5b-96b8-7bc959f57cdf
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1501
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=bb939a76-b18f-4e9b-b20d-203005e06ca8 ro quiet splash acpi=force irqpoll
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-20-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.26
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lp lpadmin netdev plugdev pulse pulse-access sambashare scanner tape users uucp video
WpaSupplicantLog:

dmi.bios.date: 12/07/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2.6.3
dmi.board.name: 0UW744
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.6.3:bd12/07/2007:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1501:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn0UW744:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1501
dmi.product.version: Not Specified
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug was filed against a series that is no longer supported and so is being marked as Won't Fix. If this issue still exists in a supported series, please file a new bug.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.