Fixing the Errant Microphone

Fixing the Errant Microphone December 5, 2005

Posted by Carthik in ubuntu.
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The microphone on my laptop wasn’t working too good, and I found a quickie guide to help fix this. I hope this will be useful to someone else with the same problem. Credit for the fix goes to Kenneth P. Turvey, who responded to a question on the Ubuntu-users mailing list.

The instructions:

Run alsamixer
Unmute all the outputs by hitting “m”
Hit tab to go the capture settings
Highlight the “Mic” setting using the arrow keys.
Hit space to enable the microphone.
Highlight the “Capture” setting using the arrow keys.
Hit space to enable capture (note that just because you have volume bar
here doesn’t mean it is enabled).
Hit escape.