Hi Terry: I think your alsa drivers are in fact working. However, the default state is for all channels to be muted. You were on the right track with amixer, though mic needs to be written MIC not mic. Amixer is annoyingly case sensitive like that. Type amixer and pipe it through more to see how your channels are set and how to spell the names in order to change them. You can alternatively edit /etc/asound.conf and type 'alsactl restore' to load your new settings, though you might want to use a mixer anyway to fine tune them. There is indeed an interactive mixer called alsamixer, though aumix should work if you have oss emulation (which you would want). I found that alsamixer would segfault when I tried to run it. Kirk Reiser solved my problem by suggesting I might have an old ncurses development library installed. If you get this problem, check to see that you have libncurses5-dev installed, then it should run just fine after recompilation of alsa-utils. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> ICQ number 43634701
