I'm stumped yet again trying to do the most elementary kindergarten excercise of plugging in a cheap mic into my early SBlive and capture the input via arecord. I've managed to get it working, once upong a time, by turning everything up but now I'd like to isolate exactly what is required in alsamixer to get this to work so I can document it at alsa.opensrc.org. Simple wav playback... Master 71% (unmute) PCM 71% (unmute) Wave 72% ... is the above correct ? Simple wav record... (as above, plus...) Mic 71% (unmute) (capture on) Mic Boost (unmute) - optional ???? What do I need to add to record the SBlive mic ? *** On a related note there is something strange with the 3 screen views of alsamixer... the F4 Capture page shows CD | Mic | Video | Phone without volume sliders but hese 4 items do not appear, as is, on the F5 All screen ? Specific bonus question, how do the 4 items on the F4 Capture page relate to the 4 similar named itmes on the F5 All page that do show volume sliders, mute and capture options ? That kinda leads to yet another question, what is the proper proccedure to deal with either or both these sets of options ? --markc
