Hi, My problem is that I can't Skype doesn't record sound properly. the plughw interface doesn't appear and using hw:0,2 seems to be the wrong bitrate for Skype. Maybe one way to fix it for me is writing a custom .asoundrc? Now it starts being funny: There are two alsa wikis introducing to asoundrc: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Asoundrc http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/.asoundrc The second url contains: == A brief example. == Put the following in a file in your home directory in a file named .asoundrc: pcm.card0 { type hw card 0 } ctl.card0 { type hw card 0 } So what should happen now? Opening alsamixer should there be new items called card0 ? Do I need more than just restarting alsamixer ? Or don't aliases appear on the alsamixer display? Now this is fine. Using google or the links at the bottom of the wiki page you can find http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html quite easily. However it only contains a list of all options of pcm but not of ctl ? Are the options the same? Marc Weber ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user