@David: I tried 4 cases: with and without fw patch, with and without running hda-verb. Recording works in all these cases. In "Sound Preferences > Input", I can see two items in the "Connector" drop-down list: "Microphone 1" and "Microphone 2". There's no "line in" option. After testing, I found "Microphone 1" and "Microphone 2" correspond the back and front mic hole respectively. There seems no "line in" hole in my OPTIPLEX 380 box.
@jaezcurra: There is no "configure" file in the hda-verb pack, just "make" will work. Since you are not familiar with the compiling job, let me give a revision of David's instructions: 1) Make sure the package "build-essentials" is installed 2) In your terminal: $ wget -c ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/misc/hda-verb/hda-verb-0.3.tar.gz $ tar vxzf hda-verb-0.3.tar.gz $ cd hda-verb-0.3/ $ ls # have a glance at the files in the pack, note that there is a "Makefile" ChangeLog COPYING hda_hwdep.h hda-verb.c Makefile README $ make # this command will use "Makefile" gcc -Wall -O2 -g -c -o hda-verb.o hda-verb.c gcc -o hda-verb hda-verb.o $ ls # you can find an executable file "hda-verb" appears: that's what we want ChangeLog COPYING hda_hwdep.h hda-verb hda-verb.c hda-verb.o Makefile README 3) run your "hda-verb": $ ./hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x1a 0x701 0 $ ./hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x1b 0x701 0 if you're lucky, your system can play sound now 4) add two lines in /etc/rc.local, so that they'll be automatically applied when booting: /path/to/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x1a 0x701 0 /path/to/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x1b 0x701 0 Remember to replace "/path/to/hda-verb" with the actual full path of your "hda-verb". -- No sound on Dell Optiplex 380 (ALC269Q, probably new chip) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/582199 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs