internal mic stopped working with natty and eeepc 1005ha

[Romano Giannetti]

Really I do not know to which package assign this bug. Upgrading to natty makes my skype setup not working with the internal mic (I have an eeePC 1005HA).
Mic input works ok for the external mic, when I plug it (although the sound quality has never been nice with this netbook), but when I disconnect the external mic, there is no input from the internal one.
Worked with Maverick.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
can you please follow this guide:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/InstallingLinuxAlsaDriverModules
Thanks
Fabio

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

I will try to install the ppa suggested, and report back, although I'd appreciate a changelog to see if it suggests something about ALC268 audio.
Notice that the audio worked ok in Maverick.
PD in the instructions you explain how to go back to the old driver, but not how to get rid of the ppa added. Did purge-ppa work?

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

Hmm...

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

Ping?
More testing... if I remove ~/.pulse directory, then the internal mic will work for just one time. Trying to open pulse configuration dialog (from the volume indicator applet) show a window that say "waiting for sound system..." forever.
Rebooting brings back old behaviour --- no internal mic. I tried with "analogue input" and "analog microphone" input setting, all the same.

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

Try to guess the culprit package. Maybe it's a alsa driver, do not know exactly.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

bug 774654

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

Don't think, different matter. My audio works ok with the external mic. It's the internal mic that stopped working.

BTW, the added ppa is not working. Is this expected?

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We need some more information from you before we can start working on this bug.

Please include the information requested from the "Reporting Sound Bugs" section of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems as separate attachments.

If you are using Karmic or later this information can be gathered for you automatically using the command apport-collect -p alsa-base BUGNUMBER where BUGNUMBER is the number of the bug you've reported.

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

The last update to pulse (1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu3.1) partially solved the problem. The internal mic is working now, although it is really noisy.

Tested with sound recorder.

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

BTW, I am missing mail messages from launchpad. Is there some known problem or it's a problem from my side?

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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