I've followed the thread about s-c-s and I'd like to point the list attention also to the input side of the sound. Today VOIP and IM are important business applications and I can't find an easy way to test the mic input on the F9 RawHide I'm using to write this msg. My test PC is an Intel DQ35JO MB with a Philips 720K/40 webcam and an headset that I use without problem with eeepc's Xandros sound recorder. Now I'll try to imagine a user that want to setup the audio input on F9. First of all there are many places to check: - System/Preferences/Sound - Audio Conferencing - Volume Preferences ( Alsa Mixer ) ( not easy to find ) - System/Administration - SoundCard Detection - Applications - Sound/Video - PulseAudio Volume Control and Sound Recorder Probably the first try would be System/Preferences/Sound - Audio Conferencing - Sound capture which has many options: - ALC268 Analog ( twice ) - OSS - ALSA - Usb audio - PulseAudio - Test sound - Silence there is "Test Sound" with a Sound Capture but not level meters or Record/Playback test. If I choose Usb Audio and click test I get: "gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat: Could not open audio device for recording". Then if I try to start the Applications - Sound/Video - Sound Recorder and I get: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." Now I won't continue, this want to be only an example to show that probably the whole "Sound" needs attention. best regards, Lorenzo Fiorini -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list