Comment 43 for bug 582199

@Forrest Yu: Thanks for the pointers. I think it could be that the init verbs are applied, but then the driver in its infinite wisdom reverts the changes by doing other verbs. Which means that the "patch" solution is not working, at least not the verb part. How about recording with and without the patch? Do you choose between "mic" and "line in", or between "mic" and "front mic", or something else?

@jaezcurra: Try this:
1) Make sure the package "build-essentials" is installed
2) Unpack the downloaded file and cd into that directory
3) run "./configure", and if successful, run "make"
4) you now have a "hda-verb" executable. you can either copy to the place of your liking, or run "sudo make install" to have it copied for you.
If step 3) fails, you're likely missing a package ending with "-dev" and hopefully you'll get an error message indicating which one.

As a side note, on my "things to do when I have some time and priority"-list there is: "take hda-verb, hda-analyzer, hda-emu and codecgraph, package them as one package and build into a PPA". Unfortunately I don't have a time estimate for when that will happen.