Okay, so given the icon, that increases the likelyhood if this being an either/or jack, which is also what the kernel says. I e, it's a 3-pin only jack, but you can plug either a headphone or a mic, but not the headset combo.
As Anthony says, we probably have better support for this in Quantal. This is how it's supposed to work in Quantal: When you plug something in, both the "Mic" and the "Headphone" option appears in the sound settings. If you plugged in a headphone, you go to the output tab and select "Headphone", on the input tab select "Internal Mic". If you plugged in a mic, you go to the output tab and select "Speakers", on the input tab select "Headphone Mic" (or possibly just "Microphone", don't remember). If this is a cert blocker for 12.04; I need to SRU this functionality into 12.04. But I don't want to do that before I have got actual verification that the above is how it actually works in 12.10, and that it all works correctly. I can't do that, because I haven't got any hardware. Can you do it for me? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1132769 Title: external mic does not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1132769/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
