On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 16:17 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > There's only one mic socket on the card so I thought this would be a > doddle to sample. When it didn't work I thought it was the card so I > swapped it for another similar card/chipset. > > There is absolutely no sound detectable coming from the mic. Go through the preferences for the volume control mixer, you may find there's an option for selecting the mic source, which would select between separate front panel and back panel mic sockets. It doesn't know what you have, and it could be set to the wrong one. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.