Dear all, from what i read, this card share the line-in in with the mic-in. Anyway, with Debian Wheezy and Linux version 3.17.4-angelo (root@jerusalem) (gcc version 4.9.1 (Debian 4.9.1-19) ) I cannot have mic capture working, until i toggle it off and on again. My hardware: 05:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB X-Fi Subsystem: Creative Labs X-Fi XtremeGamer FATAL1TY PRO Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 32 (1000ns min, 1250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18 Region 0: I/O ports at c000 [size=32] Region 1: Memory at f4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M] Region 3: Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Kernel driver in use: snd_ctxfi Once alsa starts, i cannot record anything from the MIC input until i don't issue a "toggle" (on->off->back to on) on the Mic channel. AMIXER settings: amixer Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume cvolume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 256 Capture 0 - 256 Front Left: Playback 246 [96%] [-2.50dB] Capture 228 [89%] [-7.00dB] Front Right: Playback 246 [96%] [-2.50dB] Capture 228 [89%] [-7.00dB] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 256 Capture 0 - 256 Front Left: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Front',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 256 Mono: Front Left: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Surround',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 256 Mono: Front Left: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Center/LFE',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 256 Mono: Front Left: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Side',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 256 Mono: Front Left: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Line',0 Capabilities: pvolume cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 256 Capture 0 - 256 Front Left: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] Capture 250 [98%] [-1.50dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] Capture 250 [98%] [-1.50dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 256 Capture 0 - 256 Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Capture 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Capture 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pvolume cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 256 Capture 0 - 256 Front Left: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] Capture 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] Capture 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Digit-IO',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'Digital',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 256 Mono: Front Left: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 256 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] My workaround actually is : amixer set 'Mic',0 capture toggle amixer set 'Mic',0 capture toggle Home in a suggestion for a better solution. 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