Internal microphone is not working in Ubuntu at ThinkPad Edge

Question

Guys, this problem seems to be common, but I can't find the solution.

The internal microphone in my Ubuntu 10.04 is not working, though it works pretty fine in Windows. My laptop is ThinkPad Edge 13.0 (Intel). I've tried a couple of solutions so far:

1. Killing the pulseaudio
2. Changing the values in alsamixer
3. Changing the values in the default volume control

I tested recording with either standard Sound recorder in Ubuntu and also the following command: arecord -vv -fdat foo.wav

Everything fails.

What would you recommend me to do instead of buying the external microphone (it's not reallt good for me, because my current headphones are without the microphone and I'd better work with them.

Will be happy to get some help with it! Thanks

Solution

The solution was in downgrading to the kernel 2.6.32-24-generic-pae

Comments

[cgp]

Should be on ubuntu.stackexchnge.com

[soru]

I'm posting here because I have the same problem on a Lenovo S10.

[lyuba]

Okay, it seemed not to be a real solution, because with the internal microphone working fine the external speakers don't work. Sound keeps streaming though the internal ones. Anyone know the solution?

[lyuba]

It doesn't help, unfortunately.. (

[soru]

Didn't think it would (didn't work on my S10), but figured it was worth a shot.

[lyuba]

Thing is that I don't even have my internal microphone as the option in those dropdown. After some of my recent manipulations of trying to fix this, the Input tab is now completely empty... (