Hello list,
Sorry for cross posting but I'm hoping to find some extra eyeballs to work through this with me. Here is my initial problem:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=178415
I seem to have (partially) solved this by using gstreamer-properties (thanks Seth!) to set the default input back to PulseAudio from "Custom". Not sure how that changed, and I'd never heard of this utility till today.
I'm still left with an unresponsive mic. PA volume meter shows flatline so it seems to be muted somehow, but everywhere I look shows that it is not.
Part of my problem is that I still don't really know how all this stuff fits together -- ALSA, PulseAudio and GStreamer. Furthermore, it was all working till some recent event (maybe a pupdate, not sure) that nuked it for me.
Any help in diagnosing sound issues would be most appreciated. I'll echo my solution back to here and the forum once I get it solved.
Thanks all!
-Chris