Thx for your fast response, very much appreciated!<br><br> I started the live session and collected some data. I'll attach an archive containing the output of 'pacmd list' from both systems as well as the output of the ALSA info script that they provide for reporting bugs. Maybe that will give some useful information too... <br> <br> The most obvious difference I noticed was within alsamixer. In the live session all devices have been correctly detected, including the capture device. After the installation I had to use the 'probe_mask=8' option to get rid of the softmodem in codec slot 0 (without that, there wasn't even a capture device). But, like I already said, now everything looks OK in the installed system...<br> <br>Regards<br><br>JK<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/23 Colin Guthrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmane@colin.guthr.ie">gmane@colin.guthr.ie</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 'Twas brillig, and <a href="mailto:remrot@gmail.com" target="_blank">remrot@gmail.com</a> at 23/09/09 19:29 did gyre and gimble:<div class="im"><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks a lot for your help!<br> <br> I tried everything you suggested (except for checking /etc/pulse diffs, I'll do that later) without any luck. But I attached the output of 'pacmd list' as well as screenshots of pavucontrol and alsamixer. Imho, everything looks right. When recording with audacity, I can select (in pavucontrol) between the device itself and "monitor of" the device. When selecting the device, the "recording cursor" in audacity does not even move (but flickers). When selecting the monitor, the cursor moves but records nothing but silence (look at the volume meter). Dito with the gnome-sound-recorder (he even crashes on exit when recording directly from the device instead of the monitor). I couldn't find a place where I can set the monitor as the default recording device. I can only change that after recording has started, which is quiet confusing... what's the point of these "monitors" btw?<br> </blockquote> <br></div> Monitors allow you to hear what is coming out of a speaker (think of a band playing at a live gig, they use monitors to hear their own playing). So for every output sink there is a "monitor" source that goes with it.<br> <br> If you were to record from a monitor and then play some audio you should hear that coming back in.<br> <br> <br> <br> It's odd that things are not working tho' :s Perhaps the live CD uses tsched=0 mode in it's <a href="http://default.pa" target="_blank">default.pa</a>? The output from pacmd list again on the live cd should provide a good comparison.<div> <div></div><div class="h5"><br> <br> Col<br> <br> <br> <br> -- <br> <br> Colin Guthrie<br> gmane(at)<a href="http://colin.guthr.ie" target="_blank">colin.guthr.ie</a><br> <a href="http://colin.guthr.ie/" target="_blank">http://colin.guthr.ie/</a><br> <br> Day Job:<br> Tribalogic Limited [<a href="http://www.tribalogic.net/" target="_blank">http://www.tribalogic.net/</a>]<br> Open Source:<br> Mandriva Linux Contributor [<a href="http://www.mandriva.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mandriva.com/</a>]<br> PulseAudio Hacker [<a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</a>]<br> Trac Hacker [<a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/" target="_blank">http://trac.edgewall.org/</a>]<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> pulseaudio-discuss mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de" target="_blank">pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de</a><br> <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" target="_blank">https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>