[sf-lug] USB mic not working under 14.04

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Christian Einfeldt (einfeldt at gmail.com):

> Yeah, I wasn't able to figure out how to get into a command prompt in the
> time that I had the Chromebook, and then when I did see how to do it, I
> noticed that getting a command prompt requires the user to go into
> "developer mode" and there are warnings about how going into developer mode
> could cause the ChromeOS auto updates to stop working or something like
> that.  Because it was not my machine, I didn't want to fool around with it,
> because the user is an even more unsophisticated user than me, and needs
> the absolute simplicity of a Chromebook.

Very enterprising of you to read up on that, Christian, so I commend you
on that.  As it turns out, I had it pointed out to me on CABAL's mailing
list that there's a recent terminal option (Crostini) that no longer
necessitates 'Developer Mode'.  

Details here, and all of this is just FYI.
https://chromeunboxed.com/news/chromebook-linux-terminal-crostini-first-look
(THe machine's owner might want to know.)

> So it's back to the drawing board.  I am going to try the mic on a
> different machine that has a more updated version of Lubuntu and thus
> presumably a more updated kernel as well, and hope that something will pop
> out at me.

That's a reasonable plan.

It really is a devilishly peculiar and subtle problem.  Lucky you!  ;->