Bug 772446

Summary:	default sound settings effectively hid microphone from applications
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	cam <camilo>
Component:	pulseaudio	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	bnocera, brendan.jones.it, lkundrak, lpoetter, mkasik, rstrode
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Description cam 2012-01-08 10:26:36 UTC

Description of problem:
I was trying to configure Google+ hangouts (video conferencing) on my HP Mini 311c but the application said there was no microphone hardware detected. After some digging I found a setting in the control center that needed changing to enable the microphone. This wasn't intuitive enough.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
control-center-3.2.2-1.fc16.i686

How reproducible:
100% for me

Steps to Reproduce:
1. with defaults as installed
2. try to use video conf apps
3. no microphone detected even though there is an integrated microphone
  
Actual results:
the microphone was 'not detected' by the application software because it was disabled in control center

Expected results:
the microphone should not have been disabled

Additional info:
To enable the microphone:
top right -> System Settings -> Sound -> Hardware tab -> (right at the bottom) Settings for the selected device -> Profile -> 
Change the profile setting to Analog Stereo Duplex.
Mine was previously Analog Stereo Output

This seems a ridiculously complex way to enable a microphone! Right for a sound engineer maybe but not for a typical user.

The available profiles include HDMI ones even though the cable was not connected... I would have been happier with something along the lines of:
[x] use integrated speakers
[.] use integrated mic
[x] use HDMI when connected
[x] mute speakers when HDMI connected
...

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2012-01-10 10:54:10 UTC

That's nice, but there's no configuration stored or saved in the control-center. Reassigning to pulseaudio.

Comment 2 cam 2012-01-10 11:45:17 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> That's nice, but there's no configuration stored or saved in the
> control-center. Reassigning to pulseaudio.

Is control-center merely exposing the pulseaudio API or is there scope for improving the UX here? I suggest it could be improved such that the user doesn't have to fiddle at the bottom of the hardware tab before the microphone is even detected...

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