Comment 5 for bug 465497

This is not fixed. Mic works in nothing except gnome-sound-recorder with the backports installed. The only way to get the mic to work is to uninstall pulseaudio, which has all sorts of ramifications. You can get the mic to work in some apps by running the Front Mic Boost and Capture sliders to max, but recording is full of static (with or without pulseaudio). Opening the gnome-volume-control-applet and touching the Input slider kills the mic again. No options to select mic any more, and no digital input slider.