Prinz Igor: I have the same sound card as you have but have not been able to fix it with the fixes mentioned here. My hardware (laptop Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V3205) has an internal microphone which works good (though it has a quite low volume). You could try that one by opening up the GNOME Volume Manager, press "Switches"-tab and then "IntMic". Make sure it is not muted or anything (I had to use "alsamixer" and go into "Capture"-mode to do that)...
Everyone else: You are mentioning that you have a tab called "Options" in GNOME Volume Manager. The only tab I have are "Playback" and "Switches". Are the tabs in the Volume Manager audio device dependent or do you have a different version of it? The version is I'm using is '2.18.0'. As I wrote to Igor I am experiencing the same problem (external microphone is absolutely quiet but internal microphone works) but the fixes you mention don't work for my (similar) hardware: $ sudo lspci -vv [...] 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Fujitsu Siemens Computer GmbH Unknown device 10ad Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23 Region 0: Memory at dc240000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0 Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag- Device: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes Link: Supported Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Port 0 Link: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us Link: ASPM Disabled CommClk- ExtSynch- Link: Speed unknown, Width x0 [...] -- Microphone does not work on Dell Inspiron 630m https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42600 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs