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Re: [LUG] Pulseaudio Microphone issues

 

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:07:56 +0000
tom wrote:

> Grant Sewell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As with the vast majority of laptops, mine has a small microphone
> > somewhere around the keyboard but also has a 3.5mm TRS microphone
> > jack.
> >
> > Now, I can get audio input from the microphone jack but I can't
> > seem to get any sound in from the near-the-keyboard microphone.
> > I'm on Ubuntu 9.10 with the default PulseAudio setup.
> >
> > Had I been using OSS or ALSA, I could probably have got this sorted,
> > but this new-fangled PulseAudio malarky has got me stumped.
> >
> > Any good pointers?
> >
> > Cheers.
> > Grant. :)
> >
> >   
> If you have the speaker icon (top right) right click it, then sound 
> preferences  and have a peek there.
> ISTR that laptop mikes are switched off by default for security
> reasons Tom te tom te tom

Sound Preferences, Hardware tab:
Internal Audio, 1 Output / 1 Input, Analog Stereo Duplex
Profile: Analog Stereo Duplex

Sound Preferences, Input tab:
Choose a device for sound input:
+ Internal Audio Analog Stereo
Input level: 0 (unless I plug in a mic to the front jack, then it works)

Grant.

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