Comment 6 for bug 390318

Hey,

had the same problem in Ubuntu 9.10 64bit .
Uninstalling pulseaudio and the mic is ok in my windows xp guest.

I had to do a
apt-get purge pulseaudio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio + the rest of my packages related to pulse (found via dpkg -l | grep pulse),
except i still got libpulse-browse0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 and libpulse0
Apt tells you it's removing ubuntu-desktop as well, which probably is because ubuntu-desktop got pulse as a dependency or something. I find that apt-get doesn't remove as much as aptitude wants to, so I used apt-get for this one.

I also installed gnome-alsamixer alsa alsa-firmware-loaders alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui
and reboot

note: volume control (in tray) and 'system -> preferences -> sound' in gnome is now broken, but I kan control sound via gnome-alsamixer