I have a zoom meeting hosted on a Microsoft Surface tablet.
This laptop, running Ubuntu, has joined the zoom meeting through the web interface (using firefox). The laptop is named Gondor, and is running groovy 20.10.
On the gondor laptop, I get a message:
"your browser is preventing access to your microphone."
I've not established that the microphone is working on this laptop. How do I allow access to the microphone?
In the browser, I clicked a button to stop blocking the microphone but am still seeing the above message from zoom that the browser is preventing access to the microphone.
gondor
description: Computer
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smp vsyscall32
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description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory
description: System memory
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size: 2GiB
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product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2390 @ 1.86GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary)
vendor: Intel Corporation
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configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
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*-network
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vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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width: 32 bits
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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width: 32 bits
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product: 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
vendor: Intel Corporation
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width: 32 bits
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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*-firewire
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product: R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1
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version: 05
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
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*-generic:0
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vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
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vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
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width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
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product: 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=lpc_ich latency=0
resources: irq:0
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1
logical name: scsi0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
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configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
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*-cdrom
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vendor: HL-DT-ST
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*-sata
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product: 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
vendor: Intel Corporation
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bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
version: 02
width: 32 bits
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product: 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
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bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
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*-pnp00:01
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configuration: driver=system
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product: PnP device PNP0c01
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configuration: driver=system
Update:
The mic on the dell laptop (gondor) definitely works using textnow for what that's worth.
As I didn't change anything, I think it's something specific to or about zoom itself. The mic on the laptop is quite poor, but works for testing purposes.
