Description of problem: In F12 my kde and gnome mixer showed a long list of sliders and switches. For instance I could select/deselect capture from my laptop microphone. This is important for skype. In my fresh install F13, my kde/gnome mixer only shows "internal audio analog stereo". THe only way that I found to access the important switches and sliders, is to start alsamixer , press F6 to select the actual soundcard, and then all volume controls are available. This seems a very round about way; I would like the old mixer back. Note, I put this under pulseaudio bugs, but it might well belong somewhere else.
Aha, in the release notes the solution is given export KMIX_PULSEAUDIO_DISABLE=1 but one can argue how useful the new setup is.
You might be interested in reading the attached document to bug 653016 and adding your thoughts.
Hey Leonard, are you aware that the issues with microphones not working are widespread? Of course the natural reaction would be to tell me to prove this somehow. I however firmly believe that you know this to be true. I could try to describe my issues, try solutions here and there, but hey, you know what, I've been doing just that for the last 3 years. Enough is enough. Please fix pulseaudio, or get involved with whoever needs to fix his code (eg kernel/in-kernel audio drivers people) so microphones work consistently with Fedora. I mean come on... video works fine, USB works fine, audio output works fine, why can't audio input work, at least most of the time? I need to boot Windows for 2 things now: - to play civ or SC2. - to use Rosetta Stone (which I would much prefer to run in a VM).
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