my friend switched me back to oss sound drivers and it would work, however when I try to get my mic to work using alsa, it just won't work

I have a soundblaster live 5.1 card (which I bought new)

everything else works fine but can't get the mic to work no matter what

any help?


0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev 12)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 12)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 12)
0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 12)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 12)
0000:00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 12)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 12)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2)
0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
0000:02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
0000:02:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 0a)
0000:02:0b.0 Modem: Broadcom Corporation BCM4212 v.90 56k modem

I had same problem with Soundblaster 5.1 Live.

Look at that page:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=emu10k1

Here is the specific advice (quote from the page above) that worked for me:

damn, still not working

guess no one else has ideas to help

Well, more detail would help. What did you do in your alsamixer? Did you read other advice for your card?