Hi all. I'm running Debian 'Sid' and a working ALSA sound driver. My soundcard is a Cirrus Logic CS4281. The GNOME 'CD Player' app plays CDs no problem. 'Muine' plays mp3s no problem and all the GNOME desktop sound effects work fine. However when I plug a line-level audio signal into the soundcard's 'mic' mini-jack and try to record a wav audio file I get nothing. (I can hear the sound fine through the headphones/laptop speakers). I've tried 'wavtools' and 'ecasound' but when I try to play back the resulting wav file using 'Alsaplayer' all I get is silence. No doubt the thing I'm doing wrong is glaringly obvious but be damned if I can figure out what it is! Any help much appreciated. sebyte -- CC me by all means but a follow-up will usually do.