Comment 3 for bug 433055

As a followup 9.10 solves this issue for me with just a little
amplification. Tested with skype as well.

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Marcus Granado <email address hidden> wrote:

> same thing here, I guess:
> 1) pulseaudio's volume meter (recording) works fine, displaying a healthy
> microphone input level variation up to almost 100% when I speak.
> 2) the corresponding microphone input level in pulseaudio's volume control
> does not display any input level, total silence, even with the mic volume
> sliders at max. If I tap the microphone with force, I can see a tiny bit of
> input level; but this causes the volume meter (recording) in (1) to explode
> and oversaturate, so there's a weird discrepancy somewhere inside
> pulseaudio.
> 3) gnome sound recorder works (mic is fine)
> 4) skype does not work (mic is silent)
> 5) arecord does not work (mic is silent, even though it says
> 'playback/recording through the pulseaudio sound server')
>
> if I go in pulseaudio manager and increase on the devices tab the
> alsa_input...analog-stereo volume properties to any values between 100%
> and 480%, then (1) saturates, (2) shows a good activity in the mic input
> level, but gnome-record, arecord and skype only record noise and static,
> probably because the mic input is being clipped. So, for skype and
> arecord the choice right now is either no mic sound or noise.
>
> --
> 9.10 Internal Microphone Does not Work on Aspire One
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433055
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> Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> The internal mic works fine with 9.04. There is no sound now with 9.10 and
> any level of amplification.
>