[pulseaudio-discuss] Linking Channels Block Mono Microphone

[David Henningsson]

On 10/22/2012 08:50 AM, John Frankish wrote:
> Using pulseaudio-2.1 with a dell latitude e6220 and the internal mono microphone:
>
> The pavucontrol "configuration" tab correctly shows the internal microphone as mono.
>
> The pavucontrol "input" tab incorrectly assumes the internal microphone is stereo and any input is blocked until the "link channels" icon is clicked in order to unlink the channels.
>
>  From google I can see that several people have seen the same problem, but I don't see a solution/bug fix anywhere.
>
> Is there some way to add/edit/modify a configuration file to avoid having to remember to unlink the microphone channels every time?

We do this through a kernel patch usually. Can you submit alsa-info (see 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo )?



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