It has been more than a year. I am trying out Ubuntu Maverick 10.10 from a LiveUSB. I updated everything in the LiveUSB except the kernel and I'm still seeing the exact same problem. Quite disappointing.
** Description changed: After doing an update on a bunch of pulseaudio packages my microphone stopped working. I played with Sound preferences, made sure "mute" was unchecked and I also tried in alsamixer to increase the mic boost and I tried out both "Internal" and "Mic" options. These are all the packages that were updated before it stopped working (from Synaptic history): indicator-applet (0.1.6-0ubuntu1) to 0.2.0~bzr319-0ubuntu4 libpulse-browse0 (1:0.9.15-4ubuntu3) to 1:0.9.16~test4-0ubuntu1 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 (1:0.9.15-4ubuntu3) to 1:0.9.16~test4-0ubuntu1 libpulse0 (1:0.9.15-4ubuntu3) to 1:0.9.16~test4-0ubuntu1 pulseaudio (1:0.9.15-4ubuntu3) to 1:0.9.16~test4-0ubuntu1 pulseaudio-esound-compat (1:0.9.15-4ubuntu3) to 1:0.9.16~test4-0ubuntu1 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth (1:0.9.15-4ubuntu3) to 1:0.9.16~test4-0ubuntu1 pulseaudio-module-gconf (1:0.9.15-4ubuntu3) to 1:0.9.16~test4-0ubuntu1 pulseaudio-module-x11 (1:0.9.15-4ubuntu3) to 1:0.9.16~test4-0ubuntu1 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf (1:0.9.15-4ubuntu3) to 1:0.9.16~test4-0ubuntu1 pulseaudio-utils (1:0.9.15-4ubuntu3) to 1:0.9.16~test4-0ubuntu1 vlc (1.0.0-1ubuntu1) to 1.0.1-1ubuntu1 vlc-nox (1.0.0-1ubuntu1) to 1.0.1-1ubuntu1 Installed the following packages: libdvbpsi5 (0.1.6-1) libindicate-gtk0 (0.2.0~bzr319-0ubuntu4) libindicate2 (0.2.0~bzr319-0ubuntu4) pulseaudio-module-udev (1:0.9.16~test4-0ubuntu1) My hardware is this: $ cat /proc/asound/card*/codec\#*|grep -i codec Codec: Analog Devices AD1984A $ arecord -l **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog] Subdevices: 2/2 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 $ lspci | grep -i audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) Here is a screenshot of the pavucontrol and sound preferences and sound recorder: http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/7273/soundissues.png Here is a screenshot of alsamixer: http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6275/screenshot6d.png You can see that the mic volume level seems to indicate sound coming in, but when I play the sound is just noise. It's almost as if it was trying to use the mic plug on the side of the laptop but not the builtin one. Sound output works fine. As per this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7739984&postcount=17 I created: ~/.asoundrc pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } ...after that, my Alsa mixer changed and it only shows this: http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6919/alsai.png So I ended up reverting it and remove those changes from ~/.asoundrc I'm running an up to date version of Karmic on a Thinkpad X300. --- AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21. AplayDevices: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Architecture: i386 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog] Subdevices: 2/2 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/dsp', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/timer', '/dev/snd/controlC29', '/dev/sequencer2', '/dev/sequencer'] failed with exit code 1: Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfa220000 irq 17' Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1984A' Components : 'HDA:11d4194a,17aa20fb,00100200' Controls : 13 Simple ctrls : 9 Card29.Amixer.info: Card hw:29 'ThinkPadEC'/'ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 7THT16WW-1.01' Mixer name : 'ThinkPad EC 7THT16WW-1.01' Components : '' Controls : 1 Simple ctrls : 1 Card29.Amixer.values: Simple mixer control 'Console',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1) Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Tags: lucid Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686 UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare dmi.bios.date: 05/11/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 7TET36WW (1.10 ) dmi.board.name: 64771ZU dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7TET36WW(1.10):bd05/11/2009:svnLENOVO:pn64771ZU:pvrThinkPadX300:rvnLENOVO:rn64771ZU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 64771ZU dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X300 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO + + --- + AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23. + AplayDevices: + **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** + card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog] + Subdevices: 1/1 + Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 + Architecture: amd64 + ArecordDevices: + **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** + card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog] + Subdevices: 1/2 + Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 + Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 + AudioDevicesInUse: + Cannot stat file /proc/3071/fd/40: Stale NFS file handle + USER PID ACCESS COMMAND + /dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 3074 F.... pulseaudio + /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: ubuntu 3074 F...m pulseaudio + Card0.Amixer.info: + Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfa220000 irq 47' + Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1984A' + Components : 'HDA:11d4194a,17aa20fb,00100200' + Controls : 13 + Simple ctrls : 9 + Card29.Amixer.info: + Card hw:29 'ThinkPadEC'/'ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 7THT16WW-1.01' + Mixer name : 'ThinkPad EC 7THT16WW-1.01' + Components : '' + Controls : 1 + Simple ctrls : 1 + Card29.Amixer.values: + Simple mixer control 'Console',0 + Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum + Playback channels: Mono + Mono: Playback [off] + DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 + LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) + Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1 + PackageArchitecture: amd64 + ProcEnviron: + LANG=en_US.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash + ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4 + Tags: maverick + Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64 + UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare + dmi.bios.date: 05/11/2009 + dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO + dmi.bios.version: 7TET36WW (1.10 ) + dmi.board.name: 64771ZU + dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO + dmi.board.version: Not Available + dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information + dmi.chassis.type: 10 + dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO + dmi.chassis.version: Not Available + dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7TET36WW(1.10):bd05/11/2009:svnLENOVO:pn64771ZU:pvrThinkPadX300:rvnLENOVO:rn64771ZU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: + dmi.product.name: 64771ZU + dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X300 + dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO -- [regression] Built-in mic not working after pulse updates on Karmic. Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) sound card. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/409819 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