Comment 43 for bug 1840725

I've had an HP Spectre 360 with HP dock for 5-6 years, and this has always been a problem, and it still is. I traced it down one time to the script that detects the available audio input devices, and sets the default. The script is poorly written and is hard to follow. It detects that there are two microphones. Then correctly sets the default microphone to what the user specified, but then it sets it again, to the last microphone detected. In my case, it was the non-existant microphone on the HP dock. This script got written over by some update, and I haven't had the time to track it down again.

I'm still seeing this in 20.04 beta, the difference is now it no longer remembers my selections for using the internal speakers, or the internal microphone. It defaults to the non-existent dock speakers and microphone every time I reboot.

The only way I could get the internal microphone to work was if I booted without being attached to the dock, then attach the dock after I logged in.