Backports allowed me to intermittently access my 3810T's internal microphone (very inconsistently) but when it was working, it was unusable soft. In skype, if the microphone was working at all, the only thing loud enough to record was my finger scratching around the mic hole. However, I noticed that it seemed quite loud in gstreamer- properties 'Test.' (Unfortunately, skype 2.1 uses pulse, so I figured I could either go back to version 2.0 (this cause skype to crash intermittently). Fortunately, there is a workaround, to trick apps like Skype into falling back to Alsa, which works for me:
$ cat /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop | grep Exec Exec=/bin/sh -c "PULSE_SERVER=127.0.0.1 /usr/bin/skype" found here: http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2009/09/some_explanations.html#comment-155521 Now the real question: is the microphone haphazardly working (and ultra-soft if so) a bug in ALSA or pulseaudio? -- System Test for microphone failed (ACER Aspire 3810T) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459982 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
