Public bug reported:
Alright, so a little background. For the past few days, I've been
attempting to get my internal mic and internal speakers to work on my
system. I have seen other people post about this on random forums, and
other places, but no absolute fix for it.
Today, I tried to replace PulseAudio with ALSA, and making it the
default driver. So, I made the file ~/.pulse/client.conf and put
"autospawn=no", and rebooted. This successfully kept PulseAudio from
starting, as it should have.
At this point, I noticed that the sound menu wasn't working. Went in,
and it had the slider disabled with the label above it saying "Label
Empty". After clicking on Sound Preferences, I got a message "Waiting
for sound system to respond".
Well, then I went into Skype and tried to use ALSA, since it was
allowing my microphone to work. Made a test call, and it worked fine.
After a little while, I tried to call a friend and test it. Wouldn't
work. Just a bunch of static.
So, I decided to try to use PulseAudio one more time. So, I ran
"pulseaudio -D", and it completed successfully. After it started, I
could see that the sound menu had re-enabled everything like it should
be.
Restarted Skype again, made a test call, and the mic worked. I was
surprised, since it was using PulseAudio again, and it hadn't previously
worked.
Just as my hopes were getting up, about 10 minutes into the call, the
microphone stopped working again. Went into the Sound Preferences, and
(again) it's not showing any input from the internal microphone.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: 11.04 inspiron natty sound
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Title:
Major issues with sound; Inspiron 1546; Ubuntu Natty
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