Hello people, I am aware that this problem was reported many times in the past, but since I couldn't find any solution, please point me to the right direction if I missed something.

I use 8.10/x86_64 on Acer Aspire 6530, which has

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV635 Audio device [Radeon HD 3600 Series]

Internal microphone doesn't work and headset/external microphone jacks as well, actually as they don't exist, both in Skype and in all other apps. I tried all options in mixer, all capture combinations etc. -- nothing. Tried to update ALSA to 1.0.18a, no effect.

My only option for now is to but bluetooth headset and try it, but I hope someone found a solution for this annoying problem.

The hardware details:

01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV635 Audio device [Radeon HD 3600 Series]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0166
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19
Region 0: Memory at cfeec000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0166
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at f0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel