Shaun, I managed to get that problem solved in amixer by turning to the complete controls instead of just the simple controls. In there you will find a way to change the capture settings that works. It is like a rotary switch that can be moved from one device to another rather than being turned on or off. But I would recommend turning to aumix or rexima instead of messing with those complete controls. Someone on here mentioned rexima a while back and it is much much easier to use, and the capture setting works fine in rexima. If you want to see a script of mine using the amixer complete controls, let me know. I call it "setsource" and it takes a parameter "mike", "line", or "cd". Chuck -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (43% of Full) So visit me sometime at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh or you might reach me at chuckh on the jabber network.