I found a way to reactivate the mic: adding "option position_fix=1" to alsa-base.conf. See this guide for further information: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/docs/HD-Audio.html
However, the recording quality is much lower than within the live session. Even when setting the capture device to max. volume, the recorded stream is very quiet and contains significant noise. Within the live session, the recorded stream was much louder, even with the capture device almost muted, and contained almost no noise! I compared the PA and ALSA settings in the live system with those of the installed system (using pacmd and the alsa-info-util script) and saw no difference. It is totally unclear why it suddenly stops working after installation and also why the quality is much lower when using the necc. options "probe_mask=8" and "position_fix=1". I tried other options too (like "model=toshiba") but they didn't help. Imho, getting the audio to work is the biggest problem nowadays when installing a linux distribution... -- ALC861 : Mic does not work after installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
