On Sunday September 17 2006 6:19 am, François Patte wrote: > I have an ASUS P5WD2 Premium mobo and it seems that the sound card is a > realtek ALC882. > > I have a very low input for the microphone (alsamixer mic=100%) and I do > not what is to be done in that case. > > Can someone give me some clue? Bonjour to you: You haven't given enough information. Maybe this will help you. On my system, which is running KDE, I can open KMix and go to the "Switches" tab, and there is a switch to boost the mic input +20db. It seems to get turned off by updates periodically and makes my Skype unusable till I figure it out. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA