Thanks Péter, I've just gave that a try and didn't work. Is there a way that I could go about getting debug information from my sound card? I would like to know if this is a driver issue or if it's a hardware issue. On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Avramucz Péter <muczyjoe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > Try model=hp, in /etc/modprobe.d/options: > " options snd-hda-intel model=hp " > Then reboot, or reload snd-hda-intel, of course. > > Bye, > muczy > > Will Siddall írta: >> >> Hey everyone, >> I've had this great HP laptop for the past 4 years with no need (of >> course there's always a want) to upgrade. And of all this time, I >> never had a problem with it, until now. Out of the past 4 years, I've >> never needed to use my microphone for anything, but lately I've been >> sent overseas a lot for work and needing to keep in contact, decided >> to start skype to call back home. That's when I noticed that my >> microphone didn't work at all. I thought it would be skype, but >> trying to use gnome-sound-recorder proved that to be wrong. Nothing >> is coming through. >> >> I've tried running 'alsaconf' again, I've tried a huge number of >> .asoundrc setups, using different microphones, everything that I can >> imagine. >> >> I'm out of ideas, would anyone have anything else I can try? Has >> anyone run into this problem before? >> >> Thanks, >> Will >> >