Didn't know whether to post in netbook or hardware, hope i made the right choice.

so heres my problem, after installing linuxmint lxde on my netbook the microphone wasnt working
i followed the guide here
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Noteboo...p/25637/page/3
and now nothing audio related is working, when i open alsa mixer it is completly blank, i dont even have the little speaker icon in the corner anymore. I would like to get all audio working with the microphone but priority right now would be getting back to were i started
upon doing that modprobe command thingy the device does show up... also upon following that guide it made a folder in my home directory called soundtmp... and it wont let me delete it, how can i delete it? any help is greatly appreciated I really dont want to do a full reinstall

UPDATE: ok so i ended up caving and reinstalling linux mint lxde from scratch and i havre sound back. and alsa mixer is working, still no mic though. it shows as if i have to capture devices ive tried in skype and audacity but i cant get any sound, any ideas? ive considered trying to recompile the alsa drivers again but dont want to for fear of loosing all sound again

Check alsamixer mic may be muted.

nope not muted

Do you have the special adapter mentioned in the link you provided?
I was looking at another post sorry, this 1.
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Noteboo...-XP/td-p/29585

Adapter
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=3526375

i shoouldnt need an adapter im trying to get the on board monitor mic

Take a look at this in alsamixer.
There's a box to capture.

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mine doesnt look anything like that

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Yes yours is different but you have 2 capture bars at the lowest settings raise them.
Also there's a box that says record you may have to mark them.

yes i thought of that one... still doesnt work...

Did you raise the bars & mark the record boxes?

Run command
alsamixer
in a terminal
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/458302