On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 21:28, Mark Knecht wrote: > You might if there is hardware routing of the audio in to the audio out > in the nForce chip itself. (I know nothing of that chip.) --- snip --- > > These are all total guesses, so take them with a grain of salt and find > someone who actually knows the answer! ;-) > > Cheers, > Mark pretty good guesses, mark! once i started poking around the alsamixer (actually gnome-alsamixer) i found a little "Rec." toggle on the line-in channel, which turns on/off hardware routing of that channel. thanks a heap! now to test my condenser and see what i can get out of it :-)