Hi, The vumeter on the Input devices tab will show a nice vumeter even if nothing is recording.... This means that if you have pavucontrol open and use a crappy application (like Skype) to record sound via the device directly (as is the only way with skype - playback is cool via pulse but recording sucks big time), then it cannot open the device because pavucontrol has hogged it. I think that pavucontrol should only display a vumeter for sources if a real app has the source open too. WDYT? Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
