After upgrading to ubuntu 10.04, my audio input stopped working. I solved it by installing pavucontrol, going to the input tab, and lowering the volume on the right input channel to zero. Once that was set to zero, everything worked fine.
Also make sure to unclick the “allow skype to automatically adjust my volume settings” option in skype itself, or it will lower the input volume to zero.
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vmlaker
/ 2010/05/12This advice worked perfect to get my microphone working in Skype with Ubuntu 10.04 on my ASUS netbook eeepc! Thanks isallmaroon!
Joe
/ 2010/05/12Using pavucontrol to mute one of the channels worked for getting Skype microphone to work in Ubuntu 10.04. Thank you for publishing this tip.
Biggles001
/ 2010/05/28This was the best piece of information ever,thanks a million
Mark in Hollywood
/ 2010/06/02I had to switch “Choose a device for sound input:” from
Internal Audio Analog Stereo
to
0807 Analog Mono
after a few seconds, the microphone volume dropped off and Skype dropped the call.
Jens
/ 2010/09/04Where did you find the 0807 mono, I cannot find it on that list, only stereo.
D
/ 2010/06/17Thank you that also solved my problem.
Aleksandar
/ 2010/07/14Thanks,
worked out right away, after hours of futile tinkering with various scripts and settings.
Boris
/ 2010/08/01I’ve been bouncing my head off of the wall for days. Thanks for the fix!!!
miggy
/ 2010/08/22thank you mate for sharing this tip..
Esen
/ 2010/09/09There are many so called solutions for the microphone problem with 10.04. This is the only one that works. Thank you very much.
karim
/ 2010/09/13Thx. this should be made more popular. Thanks a lot.
csirke1
/ 2010/09/17I was fighting with it since one week!
Your advice was great!
Thanks so much!
t0ma5
/ 2010/09/27I have tried many possible solutions in Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 beta running on ASUS 1001PX but none of them worked till I found this one:
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Edit alsa-base.conf and add this line at the end of the file
options snd-hda-intel model=fujitsu
command to edit: sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
Then using hda-verb
wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/misc/hda-verb/hda-verb-0.3.tar.gz
tar -xvf hda-verb-0.3.tar.gz
cd hda-verb-0.3
make
sudo cp hda-verb /usr/local/bin
sudo gedit /etc/rc.local
add at the end before exit(0)
/usr/local/bin/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x1a SET_CONNECT_SEL 0x0d
/usr/local/bin/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x1a SET_PIN_WIDGET_CONTROL 0xe0
/usr/local/bin/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x1a 0x3a0 0x00
/usr/local/bin/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x1a 0x390 0x00
save and reboot.
Now the last thing to do to have the microphone working is to put all
the output balance either on the left or on the right. Oddily enough the
microphone doesn’t work with the output balance centered. So go to
System-Preferences-Sound (or whatever, I have Ubuntu in italian) and put
the balance on the left.
So can use voip and messenger application (tested with skype).
To hear music of course is better to center the balance.
If you set in the output as “analog headphone” the output works with
headphone and if you unplug the headphone you can hear the speakers.
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Hope it is helpful for someone, the credits for some Italian dude who posted in the forums of bugs
UbuntuBeginner
/ 2011/06/16This worked great! I even left the output balanced while Skyping.
JohnT
/ 2010/10/13Many thanks for the info. Solved a problem I’ve had ever since I bought the EeePC1001P and tried Ubuntu on it. Now I can pass it on to my son who had the same problem.
Reminder to anybody else trying it. Install GCC the C compiler before starting the mod.
matt
/ 2010/10/19ive had this netbook for 10 months now and i had just given up on the idea of ever having a microphone. This info solved my problem perfectly. thank you so much!
Asus Eee PC 1005PEB
Ubuntu 10.10
Diego
/ 2010/10/28Dude! It works for me! Thanks a LOT!
al scott
/ 2010/11/10ace! easy and it worked!
Marco
/ 2010/11/10Thank you! You have saved my day… and my netbook that was ready to fly out from the window :)
Vikas Mohan
/ 2010/11/30Works Great!! Solved my problem too.
no sound caputre using microphone
/ 2010/12/04Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Kaloa . Only operation system on labtop. Cannot move sound to zero on right. They move together. Cannot capture audio using microphone attached to aduio input jack.
Martin
/ 2010/12/11Thanks. Been struggling to get Skype (reworking) on 10.04 for a while. Gave up then found this post which worked wonderfully.
kenshuri
/ 2011/01/05When I launch pavucontrol I have an alert that told me ‘connetction refused’
did anybody encounter this issue?
thx
Raj
/ 2011/01/09i installed skype for 64 bit 10.04 ubuntu. then i installed pavucontrol. the problem is i can hear the other person’s voice but he cant hear mine …
plz guide me step wise …
plz ..
charles e
/ 2011/02/11Worked for me. Thanks a lot for the tweak.
Proof
/ 2011/02/25I tried, nothing worked…
I have:
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 14.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.2
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=64
resources: irq:16 memory:fe9f8000-fe9fbfff
Please, help me out guys!
seun
/ 2011/02/28Thanks for this, worked flawlessly!
Alonso Murillo
/ 2011/03/12For any one trying to make Skype 2.1.0.81 mic work with Kubuntu lucid 10.04 with VT1708B chip, follow this instructions:
1. Click on speaker icon on systray, Mixer, Preferences,
Setup channels, drag: Smart 5.1, Capture, Input Source, Front Mic, Rear Mic, to visible channels
2. Mute Smart 5.1 (other wise the mic volumen will be very low)
3. Select on Input Source: Rear Mic
4. Select Capture and raise the volumen all the way up
5. Unmute Rear Mic and raise the volumen all the way up
6. Close the mixer
7. Enjoy using Skype in Linux
I took me several hours browser and testing to figure this out so I want to share it with every body.
Paulo Polito
/ 2011/04/03Thank you, it works for Ubuntu 10.10 on a clevo m850.
Polito
Quy Nguyen
/ 2011/04/24Worked perfectly for my Ubuntu 10.10 – Sony Vaio VGN-NR285E. Thank you very much. It make me crazy for serveral days……
Nick
/ 2011/06/04This worked on Ubuntu 11.04! Thank you for the info!
Bernard
/ 2011/07/22SOOOOO happy! i have done EVERYTHING and then i see you advice and that was all it was! LEGEND
Joao
/ 2011/09/28Worked at once on the 1001P. Thanks!
Graeme Vetterlein
/ 2011/12/26works for me.
Needed to choose , “all except monitors” 1st in oder to see volume control
plus unlock controls .. to left d right were not lock together.
mimi
/ 2011/12/27thanks ;) worked exactly as expected
ubuntu 10.04 hp probook 4525s
pritesh
/ 2012/01/15Thanks buddy
Your solution is working!!!!!!!!!!
Tormod Hæggis Haglund
/ 2012/01/27I’ve tried EVERYTHING, and most of the commandos here doesn’t even comply.
I run LXDE in Kubunt 10.04.
The solutions in this thread gave me a functional Pavu, but there’s still no mic in Skype…
:'(
Attila Fulop
/ 2012/03/09Made my day, thank you so much! :)
rowanemslieintern
/ 2012/04/16You sir, are a hero
isomorphismes
/ 2012/08/24Very simple, thanks for the advice. Using Lubuntu 12.04.
isomorphismes
/ 2012/08/24And my problem was with Google Talk not Skype per se.
gio
/ 2012/09/21simply….. it works ! thank you
Tanmay Pal
/ 2013/02/01thank you so much