I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and Skype.
My mic is not working. I have 1 mic attached to the system and another one in my headphone (Beats by Dr. Dre).
I followed these steps:
Turn PulseAudio autospawn off, normally: $ echo "autospawn = no" > ~/.pulse/client.conf
killall pulseaudio
But this did not help me and it disabled my sound after my system restarted. I then tried
echo "autospawn = yes" > ~/.pulse/client.conf
then
pulseaudio -D
It fixed my system sound but still no sound on Skype microphone.
After that, I tried this command
echo "options snd-hda-intel model=acer" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf > /dev/null
I've also upgraded alsa sound drivers by running:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r)
however on the last command:
sudo apt-get install linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r)
[sudo] password for gaurav:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-alsa-driver-modules-3.2.0-27-generic-pae
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-alsa-driver-modules-3.2.0-27-generic-pae'
When I type pulseaudio
in terminal it shows me
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
After all this, my sound system started behaving abnormally. Internal Speakers and headphone or 5.1 speakers both works at same time but still the microphone is not working. I even hear a noise when I don't play anything. It's freaking me out and my microphone problem is after 12.04 . Can I use my headphone microphone? I am having beats headphones.
Details of my system alsamixer
Even Now My system sound OUTPUT connector option is gone here is the screen shot
Best Answer
Changing Device Input values under gstreamer-properties fixed it for me.
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