Ok... At this point I think it is a bug in either Ubuntu or ALSA itself. I installed a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI sound card and the same problems manifested themselves. I can hear myself breathing but gnome-sound-recorder will not record any sounds from the mic. I then recompiled alsa-drivers 1.0.16 and installed it (make install) but it had no effect. I didn't expect anything as the Ubuntu package of alsa-drivers was already 1.0.16 I noticed that Ubuntu has version mismatches in the installed packages: alsa-driver 1.0.16 alsa-utils 1.0.15 alsa-base 1.0.16 Could this be a source of the problem? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user