Comment 245 for bug 116326

My sound also started to work now which is pure joy. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this happen!

As pointed out by others, the microphone doesn't work though. Here is the strangest part though:
If I install "recordmydesktop" then the mic works but it records with extremely low volume. With the usual "sound recorder" utility app all I get is aggressive snapping or pounding sounds (reminds me of some kind of motor or something). These strange snapping sounds are also not related to how or what I say when I'm recording, the snapping sounds that's actually being recorded into the audio file are regular in pace and volume. Microphone also doesn't work in Skype on Linux. In Vista on the same machine the mic works in all apps. I have tried googling for hours on various configurations inside alsamixer etc but nothing worked. I've tried unmuting/muting various channels like "mic boost", "front boost" etc and I've tried all kinds of input source settings but I simply could not get the mic to work in ubuntu inside any application except for the strange and magic "recordmydesktop" application. Finally, one more curious detail is that I tried to boot Fedora Core 9 Preview on this same machine and there the mic didn't work either (which is not that suprising given that they have the same ALSA version, they have pulse audio etc) but for some reason I can actually get the mic to work using the F9 preview live CD by deploying the usual tricks (messing around with settings in alsamixer etc). I also noted that if I turn up the "mic boost" to maximum in F9 I hear those strange snapping/pounding sounds again but much weaker.

Getting high quality microphone support to work would be a great improvement though, mostly because of Skype.