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kennethh
Asked: 2012-05-04 18:04:38 +0800 CST

How to get microphone to work on acer aspire one 722

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I have an acer aspire 722, I recently went to use gmail/talk as well as empathy and realized that the microphone does not work. I checked the sound settings, adjusted microphone level, did a mic test but the level indicator showed no bars.

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3 Answers

  1. Now my speakers work & mic work:

    • I installed linux-image-3.4.0-999-generic-pae_3.4.0-999.201205070447_i386.deb
    • and then adjusted mic boost in alsamixer
    • sudo alsactl store
    • added to startup applications: alsactl restore
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  2. You need to unmute the microphone input. Try running alsamixer in a Terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T), and checking it there. If it's muted or low, you can unmute and/or increase it in alsamixer.

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    • Open a terminal window by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and type: alsamixer.
    • Press F6 and choose 1 HDA ATI SB as a sound card to configure by pressing Enter.
    • To see the mic-related sliders, press F5 and move the cursor keys to the right, only the outermost three sliders need to be set to a level of 56 by pressing the Up key
    • Then, by pressing the C key on each of the three sliders, the volume level of each right channel needs to be put to 0
    • finally, quit alsamixer by pressing ESC.

    See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne522#Microphone

    After each reboot, you may need to toggle the Mute button by:

    • Click on the speaker icon on top right panel and choose Sound Settings...
    • Click on the Input tab (second from left) and adjust input volume to Unamplified 100% and say something to see if the input level indicator moves enough. If not, click on Mute to mute and then click again to unmute.

    Hope this helps

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