I found out a workaround for my case! It consists of muting everything
in alsamixer except Master, PCM and Externel Amplifier. The strange
thing is that the microfone works even when it is muted. And it never
stopped working, because when I first discovered this bug I recorded my
voice with
I have this same problem on my Thinkpad R50e laptop, with the Intel 82801DB
sound
card (it uses the module snd-intel8x0) in Ubuntu 7.04.
Everything looks fine with the sound, and xmms starts playing the songs fine and
doesn't complain anything, but the sound is inaudible.
I have tried to use