HOW the "H" do you get the Mic working in FC8

[Da Rock]

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 18:13 +1100, Simon Slater wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 15:35 -0500, Jim wrote:
> > FC8/KDE
> > I have gone into Alsamixer selected MIC, enabled, Mic 1 is selected,  
> > what else must I do to get MIC working.
> > In Kmix all settings are enabled for MIC .
> > The Mic is the most Frustrating thing to get working in the sound system.
> > How do you run Pulse to check Mic Settings.
> > The MIC is also a problem FC10,  submitted  messages to  Fedora-test 
> > and  filed bug report, no body can  help.
> > Anyhow  back to FC 8 Mic problems.
> > 
> 	Good question.  After reading this post I realized that since
> installing F8 I hadn't used the mic either.  I used Kmix and set the
> level & clicked the green dot to turn it on.  Works fine.

Try setting the mixer to include capture settings - that helped me with
my recording issues.