Hey Guys: So there were 3 pieces of advice I received on why the Ext Mic on my Gutsy Ubuntu ain't showing no lurv. The error I get while testing sound capture is : Failed to construct test pipeline for 'gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat' 1. The first clue was that link you sent Kassen, about the modem being disabled in my BIOS. So I reboot, hit F10 and get in PhoenixBIOS utility, where there are no signs of any modem. How do I access this modem in the BIOS? What modem is this? 2. Second I found this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer/+bug/131711 So I took one guys advice about installing esound after which my chuck --probe gives the following output (see below mail). Its showing 2 duplex channels but no capture happens!!!! It's probably not a problem in Chuck, cuz even Audacity doesn't capture nuffink. Any ideas on what I could try next? I only understand Klingon!! - djf fadereu@fadeurium:~$ chuck --probe [chuck]: found 2 device(s) ... [chuck]: ------( chuck -- dac1 )--------------- [chuck]: device name = "hw:Intel,0" [chuck]: probe [success] ... [chuck]: # output channels = 2 [chuck]: # input channels = 2 [chuck]: # duplex Channels = 2 [chuck]: default device = YES [chuck]: natively supported data formats: [chuck]: 16-bit int [chuck]: 32-bit int [chuck]: supported sample rates: [chuck]: 48000 Hz [chuck]: 96000 Hz [chuck]: 192000 Hz [chuck]: [chuck]: ------( chuck -- dac2 )--------------- [chuck]: device name = "hw:Intel,1" [chuck]: probe [success] ... [chuck]: # output channels = 2 [chuck]: # input channels = 0 [chuck]: # duplex Channels = 0 [chuck]: default device = NO [chuck]: natively supported data formats: [chuck]: 16-bit int [chuck]: 32-bit int [chuck]: supported sample rates: [chuck]: 48000 Hz [chuck]: 96000 Hz [chuck]: [chuck]: ------( chuck -- 1 MIDI inputs )------ [chuck]: [0] : "Midi Through Port-0" [chuck]: [chuck]: ------( chuck -- 1 MIDI outputs )----- [chuck]: [0] : "Midi Through Port-0" [chuck]: fadereu@fadeurium:~$