Bug 600781

I'd just like to comment here that I have exactly the same frustration, on my Dell E4300 and use exactly the same temporary work around.

To add to my confusion, the E4300 has no 'Front Mic', just the jack on the side and the internal 'Digital Mic', however this is more likely an issue with the snd-hda-intel driver.

You might be interested in reading the attached document to bug 653016 and adding your thoughts.

Hi,

looks like it was fixed in pulseaudio-0.9.22 (in fc12, 13 and 14 we have 0.9.21)

The patch was proposed long time ago:
http://www.mail-archive.com/pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de/msg06511.html

I tried it on my Dell E6400 and you'll get the first microphone (Microphone 1 / Microphone) as the "Digital Mic" (you can check it with alsamixer).

Do you think that pulseaudio will be updated to 0.9.22 in the current fedora 14 life cycle or that at least that patch will be applied to the current version?

Thanks!
Bye!

I have got the same problem on Dell XPS M1530.
I want to create an easy bash script to change my microphone input method (Mic or Digital Mic).

I use Fedora 14 64 bit:
$ uname -r
2.6.35.9-64.fc14.x86_64

$ lspci |grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)

Other packages info:
$ rpm -qa|egrep "pulse|alsa"|sort
alsa-lib-1.0.23-2.fc14.i686
alsa-lib-1.0.23-2.fc14.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.22-1.fc13.i686
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.22-1.fc13.x86_64
alsa-utils-1.0.23-3.fc14.x86_64
kde-settings-pulseaudio-4.5-11.fc14.noarch
pulseaudio-0.9.21-7.fc14.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-7.fc14.i686
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-7.fc14.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-7.fc14.i686
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-7.fc14.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-7.fc14.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-7.fc14.x86_64
report-config-localsave-0.20-1.fc14.x86_64
report-plugin-localsave-0.20-1.fc14.x86_64
wine-pulseaudio-1.3.9-1.fc14.i686
wine-pulseaudio-1.3.9-1.fc14.x86_64

If you need other info on my system, please ask to me.

I hope to test new version of pulseaudio.

Created attachment 471270 [details]
switch between Mic and Front Mic to Digital Mic and viceversa

I write this simple bash script to easly switch  between Mic and Front Mic to Digital Mic and viceversa.
Need a little configuration:
- CARD is the number of sound card, my is 0
- NUMID is the number id of Input source that need to change, my is 16 and I can find it from bash:
$ amixer -c 0 controls|grep Input
numid=16,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source'
numid=17,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source',index=1
numid=18,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source',index=2
- Microphones items, to view them I use this:
$ amixer -c 0 cget numid=16
numid=16,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source'
  ; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw------,values=1,items=3
  ; Item #0 'Mic'
  ; Item #1 'Front Mic'
  ; Item #2 'Digital Mic'
  : values=2

Mi internal microphone is "Digital Mic" (item 2). My external microphone is "Mic" (item 0).

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