Enabling a Microphone on Ubuntu

i installed ubuntu jaunty on my laptop and was tryin to configure the microphone but it failed to work. so after 2 days of search , i finally meet with a solution.

Carried out following things to enable the microphone settings.

1.Open the “Volume Control” panel.
2.In the “Volume Control” panel: “Edit” → “Preferences”.
3.In the “Volume Control Preferences” panel: tick “Microphone”, “Capture”, and “Capture 1”.
4.Close the “Volume Control Preferences” panel.
5.In the “Volume Control” panel, “Playback” tab: unmute the microphone.
6.In the “Volume Control” panel, “Recording” tab: enable audio recording from capture.
finally i was able to test sucessfuly the skype account. Hope this thing will help u.