ThinkPad microphone not working

[stan]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:13:23 +0200
suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Stan,
> 
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 22:22, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:
> > One quick check you could do is to turn off pulseaudio for the
> > device in pavucontrol, reboot, and see if the settings are loaded
> > properly into alsa by looking at alsamixer.  If they are, that
> > confirms it is a pulseaudio problem, if they aren't, an alsa
> > problem.  I think you should then open a bugzilla against alsa or
> > pulseaudio, putting in the text you wrote above, and attaching the
> > alsa-info.sh output for your system to the ticket.
> 
> I selected "Analog Stereo Output" in the configuration tab for
> pavucontrol. But that doesn't seem to do it. Anyway I'll try to
> investigate some more, hopefully I'll have enough for a bug report.

In that dropdown on pavucontrol for me, the last entry is off.  If I
select that, pulse stops controlling the device and it reverts to alsa.