I finally got the microphone to record using alsa. I want to pass along a tip that may help someone in future. amixer cget numid=1 That command will display everything about the first element on your default sound card. There are 71 such elements on my card. I simply listed them all into a file. Then I had something I could get a handle on. amixer cset numid=1 new-value That command sets element 1 to the new value. I discovered my problem was an element called 'capture source' which was set to phone. I reset it to mic, and now I can harrass the world with my vocalizations. --Brian Tew _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list