Comment 51 for bug 42600

I was fighting with this as well for a while, and as I just got things to work out, I figured that I'd post what I did. Pardon the lack of technicality herein, as I know almost nothing about the specifics of this.

I'm running Hardy, 8.04. I was having trouble getting sensitivity on my mic for Skype. I'm using a Acer Aspire 5570-2758 (or so says the sticker), and the cheapest Logitec headset I could find. After struggling through a lot of things, I downloaded the ALSA mixer and fidgeted with that for a while, but it produced almost no results (sound was still very, very quiet, with an electronic background). I uninstalled it, as it was not fixing my issues.

I returned to the basic Volume Control and took a look at the bug reference in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66714.

I opened volume options and have these tabs checked under Edit -> Preferences: Master, Headphone, PCM, Front, Line-In, Microphone, Mic Boost, Capture, Capture 1, and both Input Sources. That being said, everything under the "Playback" tab is at max. Under the "Recording" tab, "Capture" is all the way down, but nothing is officially muted (no X's over anything); "Capture 1" is at max, again no X's. Under the "Options" tab, both Input Sources are listed as Front Mic. Everything works perfectly at this point.

I'm sorry if this is not the technical jargon people are accustomed to here, but I hope it's explained well enough. Thanks for the help.