Paul Johnson wrote: > Debian Testing with the stock PulseAudio install. Combo jack > headphones/microphone. Can't hear microphone except briefly when mute > switch clicks either direction, or earbuds that came with my phone except > when mute button is held down. Lenovo N586. Played around with alsatools > and pavucontrol but couldn't get mic to do more than click on headset, and > mic with same combo plug on earbuds only worked with button pushed in. Not > quite sure what to do from here,
This sounds like a hardware problem, actually. Try cleaning out the jack -- you could have some dust trapped in there making the connection fail. -dsr-
