Whilst at Desktop Summit I want to do some work with a colleague who can't be present, and we considered using Google Hangout. Up to this point I hadn't tried using either the webcam or built-in microphone on the netbook (Acer Aspire One 533). The webcam is fine, but I can't get it to recognise the built-in microphone.
My next step with audio problems is always to open the command-line alsamixer. There I found that the capture device settings were muted. Setting those correctly hasn't made the microphone work.
Then I turned to pavucontrol - which tells me I have no microphone - not what the netbook manual says. I tried an external microphone too, which seemed to go unnoticed.
Has anyone any ideas? I found lots of threads about Ubuntu users having problems, but of course the commands and packages recommended for them are less helpful in Fedora.
Anne