Re: [LUG] Pulseaudio Microphone issues

[tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Grant Sewell wrote:
> 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)
>   
Mines got a slider for changing the gain - does that not work?
Tom te tom te tom

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