Microphone not detected on Dell Vostro 1500

[Jon Leighton]

I am on Gutsy with a Dell Vostro 1500 and my microphone does not work at all. The microphone was not actually being detected by ALSA (I couldn't set it as an input source in gnome-volume-control), but I found this bug: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=203 and followed the workaround to put "options snd-hda-intel model=ref" in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base. This resulted in the microphone being detected (I could set it as the input source) but there were two issues:

* When I plugged external speaker in, sound would continue to play on the laptop's internal speakers
* I still can't manage to record any sound with the microphone (this might be because I don't have it configured correctly but I have played around with lots of different settings)

Incidentally, I had to upgrade to alsa-driver-1.0.15rc3 in order to get my sound to work (see bug #131133), but I'm pretty sure this is also an issue in the Gutsy packaged version of alsa-driver.

Any work around or fix for this would be really appreciated. Thanks.

[Jon Leighton (jonleighton)]

Some more info:

$ lspci -vv -s 00:1b.0
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0228
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
        Region 0: Memory at febfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: SigmaTel STAC9205
Codec: Conexant ID 2c06

[Nikhil (mushroomcloudwarrior-01)]

Using Kubuntu Gutsy 7.10 on a Vostro 1500 myself.

I can confirm the above problem.

[Jon Leighton (jonleighton)]

Nikhil, I have managed to get mine working - please see here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gutsy_Intel_HD_Audio_Controller#head-1f2c18721a2ecb093f6cf8f64d1ad8ddb13c4d0c

[Nikhil (mushroomcloudwarrior-01)]

I'm using Kubuntu mate..

Don't have the volume and preferences, i have Kmix instead..

On Dec 15, 2007 4:37 PM, Jon Leighton <email address hidden> wrote:

> Nikhil, I have managed to get mine working - please see here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gutsy_Intel_HD_Audio_Controller#head-
> 1f2c18721a2ecb093f6cf8f64d1ad8ddb13c4d0c
>
> --
> Microphone not detected on Dell Vostro 1500
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149423
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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- Nikhil.

[Jon Leighton (jonleighton)]

You can use alsamixer which works independently of desktop environment :)

[Nikhil (mushroomcloudwarrior-01)]

   1.

   Make sure "Digital" and "Digital Input Source" is selected < Done
    2.

   On the "Recording" tab, make sure the "Digital" slider is non-muted
   and turned up < can't see a recordings tab :|
    3.

   On the "Options" tab, make sure the "Digital Input Source" is set to
   "Digital Mic 1" Done

Microphone Fixed!

Thanks man :D

On Dec 15, 2007 5:18 PM, Jon Leighton <email address hidden> wrote:

> You can use alsamixer which works independently of desktop environment
> :)
>
> --
> Microphone not detected on Dell Vostro 1500
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149423
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

--
- Nikhil.

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

So is this bug still being experienced in Hardy or Intrepid?

[dishantbt05 (dishantbt05)]

I am facing the same problem in Dell Vostro 1700, i check the mention links in this post :-https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gutsy_Intel_HD_Audio_Controller#head-1f2c18721a2ecb093f6cf8f64d1ad8ddb13c4d0c
Got Dell Vostro 1700, but upon clicking the link for driver:-https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SigmaTel
Got error:-This page does not exist yet. You can create a new empty page, or use one of the page templates.
How can i solve the problem and use mic to record voice?
Kindly guide me.
Thanking You