The vt1708 has both a front and rear microphone input. You must select the appropriate input to make it work: amixer -c SB gives: Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Stereo Mixer' 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' Item0: 'Stereo Mixer' Once set to mic or front mic, the following controls become effective: Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0 Capabilities: cvolume penum Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 3 Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] Niels http://nielsmayer.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user