bah!

[ciphergoth]

why does my new microphone record digitally perfect silence?

even if I hadn't plugged it in, I should still get a few bits of noise, not a WAV file consisting of a header and a big collection of zeroes.

Updated: OK, OK, I'll make this a useful entry rather than a whinge. I'm running Linux 2.2.19 with ALSA driver 0.5.11. ALSA reports the soundcard as 'C-Media PCI CM8738 (model 37) at 0x7400, irq 9'

I've tried wiggling all sorts of soft mixer settings, to no effect. I haven't tried with the microphone disconnected yet. I'm unlikely to get a chance to play with it much 'till I get back from Geneva, though.

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[conflux.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember you saying you dual boot your system? Does the microphone work in Windows? That way you can pin it down to a software or hardware problem. Mind you this is advice from someone who failed to ever get his microphone to work under Linux and so only used it under Windows.