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alsa-driver package

microphone does not work

Asked by michael

Binary package hint: gnome-media

Hello,

I am new with Linux and my microphone was working perfectly fine until yesterday. I checked in the voice recorder, the volume control, the input volume was put on mute without me doing anything. I have unticked the box but since then I am unable to record a sound nor to have skype work as far as my microphone is concerned. I am in ubuntu 9.10.

Could you please assist me?
Thanks in advance

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 11 19:17:23 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-sound-recorder
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-media 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-media
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #506053.

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michael (ledouillet) said : 		#1
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

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WeatherGod (ben-v-root) said : 		#3

Michael, unfortunately, this does sometimes happen with updates. I know that you unticked the "mute" box, but there might be some additional settings that have to be unmuted as well. Please double-check the "Sound Preferences" by right-clicking the volume control. Take a look through all of the tabs to make sure all relevant components are unmuted and its volume is raised.

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michael (ledouillet) said : 		#4

hey there,

thank you for your advice. I googled my problem and found the solution on the following link:
http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=927270
The problem was indeed linked to an update I made. In any case thank you for taking your time to help me find a solution.

Cheers,