Comment 25 for bug 641640

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userID (userid) wrote : Re: Sony Vaio built in Microphone and mic in does not work

I'm affected by this bug too. I'm using Sony model vpcs11c5e.

With 10.04 everything was good. After the update to 10.10 the microphone is broken.

After the update i see in /var/log/messages :

Oct 12 19:22:26 laptop pulseaudio[2242]: ratelimit.c: 1110 events suppressed
Oct 12 19:22:31 laptop pulseaudio[2242]: ratelimit.c: 1614 events suppressed
Oct 12 19:22:36 laptop pulseaudio[2242]: ratelimit.c: 1158 events suppressed
Oct 12 19:22:41 laptop pulseaudio[2242]: ratelimit.c: 1538 events suppressed
Oct 12 19:22:46 laptop pulseaudio[2242]: ratelimit.c: 1337 events suppressed
Oct 12 19:22:51 laptop pulseaudio[2242]: ratelimit.c: 1720 events suppressed
Oct 12 19:22:56 laptop pulseaudio[2242]: ratelimit.c: 1298 events suppressed
Oct 12 19:23:07 laptop kernel: [ 1922.770091] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 12 19:23:37 laptop kernel: [ 1952.716349] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 12 19:23:42 laptop kernel: [ 1957.707513] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 12 19:24:57 laptop kernel: [ 2032.594874] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded

I added snd-hda-intel model=laptop-amic to alsa-base.conf. After that the external mic. works.
"events suppressed" and "MCP power or thermal limit exceeded" messages are still there.