problem with microphone on Analog devices Soundmax sound card not detected

[dubito]

Hi,

I did a clean and std install of FC8 in my laptop (hp pavilion zt3000, centrino) yet I can't get my microphone to work. I have an Analog devices soundmax soundcard, or at least thats what it says in windows. I can hear music and use headphones but not the microphone.

When I go to system>preferences>hardware>Sound>Audio conferencing section and I click test on audio capture it says

Failed to construct test pipeline for 'gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat'


It also has Intel 82801DB-ICH4- MIC ADC as the device in the sound capture combo box.

Sound playback works fine.

Any suggestions? :confused:

Thanks in advance for your help

Regards,

dubito

[Vikswd]

The same problem here (Benq Joybook S53).

[marie@dk]

You're not alone...I have the same problem on a Dell Latitude D610 ... I'll get back if I find the answer.

It seems this is a Gnome problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=634290

[marie@dk]

Well... I still get the "Failed to construct..." error when I try to test capture, but capture now works with Skype. It turns out that I needed to check "Microphone Capture" option on the "Switches" tab within the volume control.

[ingridseynhaeve]

Hi dubito,

Previously, I had also problem with my microphone.
It was not accessed by me at all. Then, I tried myself to solve the problem. Suddenly, I found that the microphone was already muted by default.
I enable it and then use it. Now, I have no problem with my microphone. Use this one to solve your problem.
Hope, this may help you. :)