Hello to David Henningsson and associates,

I have been trawling the internet to find out why the internal mic on my Acer Aspire One AOA-110 netbook is permanently inhibited by Alsa. This little pc runs Linux Peppermint 5 OS, which contains PulseAudio ESD over-riding the Alsa sound architecture.

Thinking initially this was a "programming" fault, I have read as much of the history up to the patch need as I can understand and so appreciate this action on your part was deliberate - but must comment nonetheless that this matter is disconcerting from a casual user perspective.

In short, the owner just wants everything on his machine to work normally and so I would really like to use the internal mic function for what it was intended.

Personally I have often wondered why PA was ever introduced, as Alsa & AlsaMixer are perfectly capable of working on their own, as testament to early releases of Linux Mint. My opinion is PA just makes the sound system too complicated. I call it guilding the lilly - so use the principle K.I.S.S

My question therefore is, can the patch be easily lifted at will to re-enable the internal microphone?

Thanks and best regards, from Rodney.