Bug#833326: pulseaudio: Lenovo Ideapad 300 - volume of the internal microphone is very low

[Felipe Sateler]

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On 3 August 2016 at 03:28, Florent Mazzone <ftmazzone at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 9.0-1.1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> When using Skype, I've noticed that the volume of the internal microphone is
> very low.
>
> Configuring different volume levels for the two channels of the microphone
> resolves the problem temporarily (for ex: left 0% right 100%). But as soon as a
> software such as Skype tries to adapt the volume of the microphone, the volume
> decreases again and the microphone becomes unusable.

What happens if you use pavucontrol to control the microphone volume?
Could you attach the output of `pactl list sources` both when the
volume is low and after the volume is up? Also, a verbose log[1] of
the problem occurring may be useful.

[1] wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler