On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 00:07 +0200, Rafa? Mu?y?o wrote: [...] > - I've got an old mic, that's connected just by an audio jack; similar to > the problem reported in August, while the mic is working (as such > hardware simply *can't* be suspended), pavucontrol seems to regard it > as suspended and just draws a frozen volume bar on the "Input devices" tab This was discussed a month and a half ago, but slipped through the cracks since: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-August/010822.html I also find it pretty useful to have an actual vu meter for capture devices, so I've pushed a patch to inhibit autosuspend for all but network devices (which should maintain the original intent of the patch). > If you want to address any of this, CC me on the replies. Just subscribe dammit :p Cheers, Arun