On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:19 PM, damian <damian.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to >>>> troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it >>>> doesn't work in either. The headset works fine on a different system. >>>> Can anyone help with this? >>> Chipset of the audio card? Laptop model? >> >> It's one of those built-in intel-hda cards and the laptop is an Acer. >> The mic actually used to work. > We have the same problem then! I had a laptop Acer (now it's my > girfriends') Aspire 5720G. After a kernel upgrade the mic stopped > working. So far I had no luck. > > My girlfriend just bought an external microphone (she's more pragmatic > than me) and that worked. > > Sorry I'm not able to help.
You guys might need to specify your specific model of hda-intel in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa since it may not be auto-detecting the capabilities of which chipset your laptop has. For example on my desktop I added this line: options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig Please read the kernel module documentation for a large list of hda-intel chips and configurations. Hopefully you can find one that works for you (if that has anything to do with it). /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt good luck :) Paul
