Microphone volume is too low to be heard in Cheese and Skype but works ok when I record with Audacity and when I do this:
vlc pulse://
I dual-boot Windows 10 and the microphone works ok in Skype on Windows. I have used pavucontrol
and gnome-alsamixer
to check microphone input volume levels (not enough reputation to post screenshots)
I use a Lenovo G50-80. More info about my system:
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CX20751/2 Analog [CX20751/2 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
$ pactl list sinks short
0 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_03.0.hdmi-stereo module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch 44100Hz SUSPENDED
1 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED
$ lspci | grep Audio
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
$ uname -r
3.16.0-46-generic
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty