The same problem with my Dell XPS m1530. Uninstalling Pulseaudio makes Alsamixer show it's <Digital> volume bar at <Capture> settings and microphone is working properly. I tried Ubuntu 10.04 and Kubuntu 10.10. Both suffer from this problem.
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