ASUS K8V SE + onboard sound recording

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Java News wrote:
> KDE 3.3 on fresh Xorg, I put microphone (tested & working) into pink
> jack, I run KRec, I run KMix in KMix I choose microphone and in KRec
> start to record - no sound record was done.

Check the output of mixer(1) in a konsole -- I _think_ 5.3-R came with a 
KDE version with a buggy kmixer that set all volumes to 0 on startup. The 
correct list for KDE-related questions is kde at freebsd.org, by the way 
(since this question doesn't seem very amd4=specific).