Comment 26 for bug 453966

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Klaus Meijners (klaus-meijners) wrote : Re: dell xps m1330 regression, integrated digital microphone no longer working [karmic koala]

@slamdunk:

Please try the following approach:
1. open pulseaudio sound preferences (I use the gnome applet)
2. open the "input" tab
3. in a terminal start "alsamixer -V=all"
4. move to "Input Source [Mic]" with "cursor right" and switch to "Digital" with "cursor up" or "cursor down"
5. check whether your mic works using the volume meter in the pulseaudio sound preferences

I have to do this each time I boot my Dell laptop since I didn't yet find a better solution. Obviously pulseaudio doesn't offer to select the digital mic as input source although alsa knows it. Any idea whether it is a software bug or which config file has to be changed?