[Bug 561572] [NEW] Microphone not detected in Sound Preferences

Tue Apr 13 20:28:58 UTC 2010

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I'm using a 5.1 analogue headset with built in microphone. There are 4
wires in total, Centre/Sub, Front, Rear and Microphone. All of which
plug into the onboard sound card of my Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5
motherboard.

The headset has been tested within a windows machine and does work (it
does not require drivers).

Within Ubuntu I succeed in hearing 5.1 sounds but within Sound
Preferences (System > Preferences > Sound > Input) I have no microphone
device listed and everything is grayed out, non-selectable.

You can see this in my screenshot here:
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If anyone would like to assist me in finding out how to solve this I
would be happy to supply as much information as is required. Please
suggest how I would find certain logs / commands to generate error
reports as I am a GUI user of linux and quite poor with the terminal
compared to you elitists.

OS: Ubuntu 9.10

Many thanks

Dave

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 12 15:54:37 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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Microphone not detected in Sound Preferences
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