Comment 45 for bug 440251

(I'm the original poster)

Current status/developments:
I've been updating my system consistently since the original bug report and the microphone is still not working
Testing has been performed both on my running system as well as on (clean) live distributions of each version.
I've now tested up to and including Maverick Meerkat Alpha 3.

My answers to the questions in comment #44:

1) I have tried several suggestions found around forums (including L&R balancing tricks etc) but none of them fixed the microphone problem.

2) Nothing else seems to be wrong: everything else on my system works as expected.

I still hope this bug gets fixed because it's quite a hassle to bring along an external mic on trips.