(solved) Microphone (Skype) problem on an Acer 1680 (lxde desktop)

[la_monda]

Hallo to the community! I ressurected a friends old laptop by installing pclinuxos lxde.
Everything works like a charm, but the microphone. I tested on a live mint 11 dvd and it worked.

Currently my modprobe look like this:

install scsi_hostadapter /sbin/modprobe ata_piix; /sbin/modprobe ahci; /bin/true
install ide-controller /sbin/modprobe ide_generic; /bin/true
install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe ehci_hcd; /sbin/modprobe uhci_hcd; /bin/true
alias eth0 ipw2200
alias sound-slot-0 snd_intel8x0
alias eth1 b44
options snd-ac97-codec power_save=1
alias pci:v00008086d00004220sv00008086sd00002701bc02sc80i00 ipw2200

and my lspi:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
02:06.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
02:06.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller

00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24c5 (rev 03)
   Subsystem: 1025:0064
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
   I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
   I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
   Memory at d0000c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
   Memory at d0000800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
   Capabilities: <access denied>
   Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
   Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

Any of you kind gentlemen know hoe to resolve this issue?
 Do i have to add something to the modprobe file?
 If i replace the systems modprobe file with the corresponding from the live session dvd will it work?
The volume controll settings from the volume control icon are turned off by the way so i can't know if the mic is muted or so  

Thnx for your time and for the support!

[Just17]

Try installing Qasmixer .......  it gives access to all the settings ....

[marcin82]

The volume controll settings from the volume control icon are turned off by the way so i can't know if the mic is muted or so

Run alsamixer command in terminal and check out which switches are visible etc. (m to mute/unmute).
Show also result of command:

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cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec

[la_monda]

Thank you guys for the replies. It seems that Qasmixer did the trick. The capture setting was muted, so I set it right with Qasmixer. Thnx a lot!

[la_monda]

For the record the command results:

[natasa@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec
cat: /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0: Is a directory

i noticed that each time a process that uses the soundcard starts, there is a small popping sound at the start and in the end after the sound stops.

is there anything else i should configure?