Ubuntu
pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #275998
  2. Comment #78

Comment 78 for bug 275998

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mabawsa (mabawsa) wrote :

I guess we are not alone. Fedora also seems to have issues as well as Open Suse.

http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/393830-dell-inspiron-1720-microphone-very-quiet.html

The forum describes how Hardy fixed his issue but I dunno if they upgraded to Intrepid.
I would guess that the bug comes from Pulse not regognising Alsa very well maybe in the libsdl1.2debian library.