Really weird mic problem in 10.04.1

[Michael Hirsch]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:05 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is Kubuntu 10.04 with KDE 4.4.5 on a Dell Vostro 3300 laptop
>
> For reasons of me messing up my system I had to make a clean install.
> Prior to that I had the internal microphone as well as the external
> mic-input working, used it in Skype now and then.
>
> Following the reinstall with x number of upgrades and all that internal
> mic is no longer working, neither is the mic-input using an external mic.

Do you have pulseaudio installed and running?  Check your process list
and see.  Sometimes it sneaks in.

Michael