Acer Aspire Mic Fix?

[ArrrghJ]

My integrated mic doesn't work. Am I just stupid or is there a driver I need to install.
I'm using an Acer Aspire 5720z laptop.

[calraith]

My integrated mic doesn't work. Am I just stupid or is there a driver I need to install.
I'm using an Acer Aspire 5720z laptop.

I'm on an Acer Aspire 4520 and have the same issue. I believe the integrated mic is a USB device, although I can't remember what I saw that gave me that idea. I've also been unable to get the mic / line in / headphone jacks on the front to work.

The only solution I've come up with is to use a Creative X-Fi Xmod USB sound card I picked up on red dot from Circuit City several months ago. As luck would have it, I just bought it because it was a good deal, but had no idea why I'd need it. Now I have a use for it. Anyway, the Creative device has better quality audio than my integrated audio, so I don't really miss the functionality I don't have.

However, if someone does have a solution to get my on-board crap to work, I certainly wouldn't scoff at it.

[Fanless_Puppy_Fan]

Basically, the AA1 works great except for the choice between no sound on resume from suspend and no internal mic. Check out my post and screen shot on the wubi board:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=905983

[johnsky]

Yes, we wouldn't be here if we hadn't already installed Ubuntu on an Aspire One, Fanless_Puppy_Fan.
We don't need a guide to general installation, or to be reminded what our problem is.


What we need is a fix to this internal mic issue everyone is experiencing on Acer Aspire Netbooks loaded with Ubuntu.

I've seen some people on other forums claim they have figured it out... but they were ignorant enough to forget there's still hundreds of us who haven't, and need to know how.


So, if anyone has figured out how to get the internal mic on the Acer Aspire One units working with Ubuntu (9.04 for me), please chime in.

I'd like to use the onboard mic for conference calls... I don't want to have to be stuck using windows on such a light comp.


Someone on another forum hinted that the issue lays in ALSA... but that doesn't really help me.

[josekym]

I've been stuck with the same issue on my Aspire 4736z using Jaunty since a couple of months ago. I've done most of the workarounds, including updating to Alsa 1.0.20, but still don't have a working front mic.

Good thing though is that my external speaker and mic ports are working by default on Jaunty, so I'm restricted to using a headset for conferencing in the meantime.

I've read on other forums that this is a regression problem with the latest kernels. No solution in sight yet.

[ideathproof]

I too have a problem with my accer aspire 5520, everything is working except internal mic, on https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/269294 there is a fix posted which apparently works according to some of the users, but i could not figure it out yet, below is the fix which was posted, but I get stuck at sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite alsa-driver_1.0.20-1_i386.deb (i asume i need to ajust this command as i am using amd64 Ubuntu 9.04 - the Jaunty Jackalope)

I fixed this problem on my Acer Aspire 5520 Notebook. I had the exact same problems above, but can now record audio just fine with the internal microphone from the Acer CrystalEye Camera and Microphone combo.
NOTE: This problem was experienced in Ubuntu 9.04 and Linux Mint 7. The fix was performed and tested in Linux Mint 7, which uses Ubuntu 9.04 as its base.
Step 1:
Download <a href="ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/drive...1.0.20.tar.bz2">Alsa drivers v10.0.20</a>
Step 2:
extract the contents.
<b>
tar -vxf alsa-driver-1.0.20.tar.gz
</b>
Step 3:
Compile the driver
<b>
./configure
make
sudo make install
</b>
NOTE: I actually used a program called CheckInstall which creates a debian package that I can later install or remove at my leisure. If you choose this option be sure to install CheckInstall first, and also it may be necessary to install the finished package in this manner:
<b>
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite alsa-driver_1.0.20-1_i386.deb
</b>
Step 4:
Configure alsa-base.conf
Add the following line to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
<b>
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=acer
</b>
Step 5:
Reboot
Sound recording should now work correctly on the Acer 5520. I experienced this problem with Ubuntu 9.04 and Linux Mint 7. The Fix works in Linux Mint 7, and should therefore work in Ubuntu 9.04, as they are essentially the same under the hood.