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Mic only works in sound recorder and although it works there its just a bunch of static underneath the spoken word, but audible. In skype, cheese, and using "arecord test.wav" at the terminal, it's the same static/white noise with nothing I'm saying being recorded. I'm using a Gateway LT2016U (KAV60?) and not sure where to begin. Tweaking alsamixer yields no result, but if it works in one app shouldn't it work in all?

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  • this is the built in mic on the netbook btw
    – Noel
    Oct 24, 2011 at 17:39
  • Are you still experiencing this problem? Mar 31, 2012 at 17:03

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try switching from asla or pulseaudio to oss open up terminal and type gstreamer-properties and it should pull up a config box to change sound settings

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  • I couldn't use OSS, but I did find this helpful. My sound input was defaulting to the mobo sound input (which is unconnected), and I was able to switch to my webcam mic. May 28, 2013 at 13:19
  • Also I just realized the "G" in gstreamer is for Gnome... On Kubuntu I also found it useful to go into the Multimedia control panel and disable my onboard audio, and then "prefer" the webcam audio. May 28, 2013 at 13:45
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Just a guess: There might be a second microphone connector on your mainboard which you need to turn off. Check the "input" page of the audio-settings.

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  • there's analong input and analog microphone, I've tried both neither are working. No way to turn one off over the other just a way to select em.
    – Noel
    Oct 20, 2011 at 23:39

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