[LAU] No mic input after removing arts

Hi all, A while ago, being annoyed by arts interfering with skype, I decided to recompile my KDE without arts (I'm on Gentoo). Since then, my KDE does not emit any kind of sound for system notifications. The bigger issue is that my mic input simply does not `reach' any software. Anything said into the mic comes out from the speakers directly. The volume controls in kmix for the mic work correctly, however. How do I fix this? Oh, I haven't tried to use the mic anywhere outside KDE.. Thanks. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------