Ok, while testing 0.99.1 I seem to have found a bug in the pavucontrol level meter. Go to the "input devices" tab and notice that the fact that this tab is open, is not enough to keep the stream alive. E g, start gnome-volume-control and check the level meter there, it works, and now the pavucontrol level meter works as well, but as soon as you close gnome-volume-control (or at least a few seconds after), the recording stream goes to idle and the level meter stops. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic