[wellylug] DSE Acer laptop with Linus installed.

[Manfred]

HI, You may have already answered that question before but I was not 
able to find anything. My partner recently (just over a month ago) 
bought The Acer Laptop from DSE to be able to comunicate with her 
familie overseas via skype. She has a working pair of headphones plus 
microphone. When she plugged them in she could hear the reply thru the 
headphones (and thru the built in laptop speakers) but the microphone 
was not working. the built in Laptop Microphone was working giving the 
listener the impression of hands free conversation. (very annoying) we 
where unable to find a way to fix it so we took it back to have it 
looked at from DSE staff. They did some adjustments gave it back and 
said it works now. Well nothing further from the truth. Went back and 
where told we have to do a driver update. We tried it without success so 
back to DSE. The salesperson performed the update tested it, and 
declared it functioning. We took it back home and now we had no 
microphone and no headphones working. Built in Microphone and Speakers 
where working - but that was not what we are trying to establish. BAck 
to DSE. The manager had a look and found that there must be some major 
hardware problem and Acer needs to have a look at that. It came back 
with a note saying that items have been replaced and it was tested and 
found working. (No details of what they replaced) Plugged the headphones 
& Microphones in and nothing is working now, on the contrary, we are now 
getting feedback. Whistling signal - signal loops or what ever its 
called. As this is getting very very very annoying I hope some of you 
have info you can share with us that can solve the problem. All we want 
that laptop and its software to do is that when you plug in the 
headphones and the microphone it recognises it, shuts down its own mic 
and speakers and lets the headphones and mic get on with its job. Any 
suggestions? Ta Manfred (Sorry about the endless email, but thought you 
should have all the info up till now)