Acer Aspire microphone not working. Help?

[sick115]

The title is pretty self-explanatory. I run Ubuntu 10.04 on my Acer laptop, and I can't get the microphone to work. I've tried recording with audacity, and the standard sound recorder that Ubuntu comes with, and can't get anything. Help?

 

[buwish]

What sort of mic are you dealing with, i.e. a USB mic or a RJ-45 mic (like a head phone jack)?

 

[sick115]

The standard microphone that's built in.

 

[xyzionz]

I think you need to go to control panel and set the microphone to default device, that's what I remember cause windows originally select high definition audio input as default and render the mic useless

 

[Snipergod87]

I think you need to go to control panel and set the microphone to default device, that's what I remember cause windows originally select high definition audio input as default and render the mic useless

He is using Ubuntu not windows. But the smae thing probbaly applies there is a configuration somewhere which you can specify the recording device. Sorry I dont know to much about Linux settings

 

[sick115]

This still is not working. Can no one help me?

 

[Guest]

I had a similar problem with my acer laptop. A downloaded an updated audio driver from the acer website and now the microphone works fine.