Well I've made alot of progress on my Gentoo system, and i'm actually trying to make some music with it now. I'm trying to use the aux input on my SBLive Value (the line in jack is busted) to record two things at once from my old school mixer, using it's stereo bus. I pan the keyboard to the right, and the mic to the left, and then use jack to route alsa_pcm capture chanels one and two to seperate busses in ardour. but alas, the right bus is always silent. I've checked it in M$XP with the kX drivers, just to make sure my little custom wiring job was working. I set the AC97 capture to Aux, and left and right chanels where isolated, keys on one and mic on t'uther. So the hardware is working right. Is this a alsa mixer issue, because that thing baffels me! this is probably a question for the alsa list, but i thought maybe some of you gents have had this same isue. Gratefull, brian