> alsamux shows card and chip set to pulse, view playback, capture, all, > and item set to master. > > How can this be debugged to support the mic being made available to > recored? What are the toosl? It may be lame, but why don't get rid of pulseaudio first? Then check for the bare ALSA subsystem. May be mixer controls are wrong in 2.6.25's ALSA for your laptop. *JUST GUESSING*