As far as I can tell all controls are unmuted and with sliders at least halfway.

In System-Preferences-Sound-Devices all are set "autodetect" except:
Sound Capture --> ALSA and
Default Mixer Tracks --> CAO106 'Alsa Mixer)

The mouse-over pop up of the Volume Control reads: Analog Center/LFE: 86%.

In the volume control (CAO106 Alsa Mixer) there's 2 tabs:
Playback --> IEC958 Front
Recording --> Line In _ Microphone

In Menu-File (change device) I have:
- (marked) 0: CAO106 Alsa mixer
(following ones all unmarked)
- 1: mixer OO (OSS)
- 2: Playback: ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
- 3: Capture: Monitor Source of ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
- 4: Capture: ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)

In Menu-Preferences "select tracks to be visible these 3 are marked:
Line In, Microphone and IEC958 Front
There's a whole bunch there unmarked: phone, IEC958 (variants: Center/LFE, Rear, Unknown), Aux, Analog (variants: Center/LFE, Front, Rear, Side, Source), Capture Feedback, Digital Source, Shared Mic/Line.

That's probably too much info, but I hope the wrong setting is detectable here.
Thanks

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Roger E <gurusonic@gmail.com> wrote:

Ludo Beckers wrote:

(Ubuntu Hardy)
Having problems with my new soundcard Audigy (Creative Soundblaster) with recording through the microphone. Playback for .wav, ogg, etc. works good.
I can't record in Sound Recorder nore Audacity nore use it with Skype.

The Volume Control is a mystery to me because there are too many strange meaningless names (LFE and "front end" and much more).

I disabled the onboard soundcard in the BIOS, but read something on Google about disabling the drivers for it too might be a good idea.

How do I find which and where those drivers are? and does it make a difference uninstalling them?

The volume control is probably the answer. In the Input section, make sure Mic and Capture are unmuted with the volume sliders raised.