microphone not working on Thinkpad X300 laptop

[farchumbre]

how do you configure internal mic in ubuntu 9.10?

[farchumbre]

Hi
Did you find any solution for x300 using ubuntu karmic?
your solution worked for ubuntu 9.04 but not for ubuntu 9.10

[grzen]

Just upgraded my X300 to 9.10... Had to perform some experiments (as always with a new distro) to configure the internal mic, but eventually got it working... Here is the link to what worked for me:
http://grzen.blogspot.com/2010/02/co...ernal-mic.html

More seriously, there's a bunch of bugs that will certainly apply here, namely 440251 or 434520, so a proper fix will probably make it into the distro, but pending their resolution, you may want to try the steps described above...

Of course, comments are welcome : )
Cheers!

[tareko]

Sadly, the problem persists and appears unfixable with any of the things I've read in 10.04

tarek : )

[nidelius]

any news on how to get the internal microphone to work in 10.04?

[juska]

I am quite convinced that Canonical does not give a **** whether the internal mic works or not. The issue has been present with like at lest 6 versions in a row and nothing changes.

I tried days to make it work with 10.04 (and thinkpad x300) and eventually got too desperate, so I tried updating to 10.10. As you can guess, it did not pay off.

Dont even suggest updating to 11.04, I tried it once and it was a mistake..

I think I've read somewhere that mic works in 11.04. 10.04 should be an LTS, so the bug fix ought to be included there..?

I am quite frustrated.