Comment 54 for bug 131711

Hardy is going to be finished in two months, and it would be good if everyone still experiencing this bug in Gutsy would burn a Hardy alpha 6 livecd, boot it up, and test your sound problems to see if they've been resolved. Report your findings back here.

Even though I reported perfect sound capture in Gutsy above, I was baffled that a new "Skype Ready" headset I purchased would not record my voice on my Dell Inspiron 1300 no matter what I tried, while another microphone using the same microphone jack and settings worked great. Finally, I tried running the Hardy alpha 4 livecd on my laptop, and in Hardy my Skype headset works perfectly!

You can get the Hardy alpha 6 iso here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-6/