[pulseaudio-discuss] Linking Channels Block Mono Microphone

[John Frankish]

> > 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 )?
> 
Thanks for the reply, please see:

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=de69a107ac63f0a3629cd16fe9b89d23ccef5888