Arthur Pemberton wrote: > I have no exertise on this, but the fact that you are hearing a tiny > amount of sound doesn't not ncessarily mean that it is working, coould > be just some sound feeding through the cicuittry. I would suggest a > graphical mixer (Kmix) and playing in the levels/switches there. Oh, believe me I have! With both kmix and aumix and (briefly --- urgh!) alsamixer As for the sound, I have saved my recording (made with krec) to file and then played it back. It's me talking alright. If I don't direct my shout directly into the mic, then nothing is recorded. Connecting through the mic-in port is meant to make use of the sound card's built-in preamp to boost the signal level to something useable, right? It's working when I reboot under Windows. I wonder if the preamp is turned off at the moment under linux? This post (OpenBSD) http://www.unixboard.de/vb3/showthread.php?t=9107 suggests that that is at least a possibility: $ mixerctl -a ... inputs.mic.preamp=off How do I go about probing that info here I wonder. Google isn't proving very useful... I see lots of stuff on google about "muted microphones" but somehow the answers have never materialized. Or I'm looking in the wrong place :-( Angus
