Mic issues with DELL inspiron 1525

[Billie Walsh]

Georgi Kourtev wrote:
>
> My mics (both built-in and external) does not work. I have tried in 
> the past months different 'solutions' unsuccessfully. Any idea how to 
> make it happened? My guess is that somehow the mic is on mute but I 
> cannot control this with kmix nor else. When I rightclick on the sound 
> control at the right bottom of the screen, I have a checked box 'mute' 
> that I cannot uncheck. I run Kubunti 8.10 KDE 4.1.2
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> gk
>
Just a thought, but do you have alsa mixer and alsa mixer gui installed?

I've never had much luck fiddling with kmix.

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