After much messing around I have a working internal MIC on my brother's
Lenovo 3000 Y410. I had to use the Alsa HDA Analyzer found at http://www
.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/HDA_Analyzer along with the patch by
Sananth found at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1039685&highlight=hp+dv6000&page=4
to change "Node [0x18] Pin" VREF to GRD. This was the key to getting
things working, there may be a way to do this directly with ALSA utils
but this HDA Analyzer works well for this.

For optimal MIC settings I also changed Node 0x18 Val[0] and Val[1] to
'3', using 'alsamixer' I set the Int Mic to 100% and Int Mic Boost to
33%, Capture [0] to 100%, and Input Source [0] to 'Int Mic'. I also used
the information found at
http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1310074 to set Audio
Default Output and Default Input to PulseAudio Sound Server. In
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf I added model=lenovo-3000 to the snd-hda-
intel options line. Installing Skype Beta which uses PulseAudio I am now
able to make calls!

This has been a persistent issue with my brother's laptop and I see
others here are using the Y410 so I hope this information helps others
out and if not I feel your pain.

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Internal microphone not working on intel-hda (Realtek ALC262) in gutsy (and 
intrepid and ...)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141445
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