When I try that, nothing still changes, and I get the following: Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Playback channels: Mono Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 15 Mono: Playback 15 [100%] [on] Front Left: Capture [off] Front Right: Capture [off] Just incase anyone is following this (besides Tyler), I have hit spacebar on the mic entry in alsamixer to turn on capture also. Greg On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 01:37:13PM -0800, Tyler Spivey wrote: > try: > amixer set Mic capture on > then try recording. that should work. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup