plugging microphone jack, fedora still records from on board mic

[georgesdev]

I use a t61 laptop with 82801H audio
It runs fedora 11, with latest patches
kernel is 2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i686.PAE

When I use audio applications and try to record (I tried Skype, and Audacity, as well as flash in Firefox), it always records from the microphone that is on the keyboard, even if I plug an external microphone.

I tried creating a brand new user account, and got the same behaviour.

All this worked fine on the t60 I had until last week, so I'm puzzled!

When I try to do the same by rebooting to windows xp, it works fine. So it's not a hardware problem.

Does someone have any idea what is happening, and how to fix it?

Thanks a lot. (I'm supposed to use my laptop to call customers about 2 hours per day, and they are telling me that the sound is extremely bad ...).

[Camberwell]

when you open the mixer do you have capture tick box under the mic slider, or if you open pulseaudio volume control can you set the micophone you want to use as the default recording device??

[georgesdev]

I played with the volume control following your advice.
I sellected HDA Intel (Alsa mixer), then clicked on preferences, selected a few more tickboxes, then in Options tab, I could select Mic instead of internal mic.

And now it works (tested Skype and Audacity).

Thanks a lot Camberwell!!!

So 2009 is still not the year of the Linux desktop, but at least the community is doing a great job!!!

[Camberwell]

No problem at all

Glad you got it working