mic stopped working

[G.]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/05/2012 01:12 AM, G. wrote:
>
>> I opened terminal as you said and the message says I already have the
>> latest version.  When I type pavucontrol on the program launcher the
>> only option is pulse audio control which per Synaptic is pavucontrol.
>> Under pulse audio control, input devices, All except Monitors, is says
>> there are no input devices available.  Under Moniors it shows an
>> option for controlling front left and front right more like a speaker
>> control, but in any case that is not muted.  Under Hardware Inout
>> Devices there are are no input devices available.
>>
>> ubuntu is not detecting my microphone.
>
>
> Go back to alsamixer...
> hit F6
> see just what devices it sees. If  it shows more than one device, play with
> them. Something has that mike muted and if pulse doesn't see it at all, then
> you'll have to dig in the basement, so to speak, where alsa is. If you see
> "MM" hit the m key to toggle mute and unmute. It should turn into 00 with a
> greed background. Using the up or down arrows will increase/decrease the
> volume level. I take it the mike doesn't have an on/off switch?? Or, does
> your hardware need some sort of keypress to toggle it on? It should be
> straight forward, and I'm sorry that it doesn't appear to be.
>
> Also, back to pavucontrol, under "configuration" if you just have two stereo
> speakers, the setting would be "analog stereo output and analog mono input"
> as you're telling pulse what your setup is and that you have a mike. Darn
> thing ought to work. Ric
>
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Ok, found the problem.  Under pavucontrol/PulseAudio Control,
Configuration, Internal Audio, I changed it to Analog Stereo Input and
lo and behold the mic device shows up!  I have never touched this so
have no idea what happened.

Thanks!

garyk