Really weird mic problem in 10.04.1

[Basil Chupin]

On 18/09/2010 16:26, O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 17/09/2010 22:22, Michael Hirsch wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> Nope, only "good old" alsa. Everything else works as expected - only the
> microphones are dead
>    


I'm coming in late in this thread....

You have installed and ran alsamixergui and checked to see that the mic 
settings are operative?

BC

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