[NTLUG:Discuss] Audigy 2 ZS Mic ALSA recording problem

[Johnny Cybermyth]

I have read all kinds of posts and articles about getting the mic to 
work using ALSA and the Audigy driver(emu10k1).  The general consensus 
is that whatever the fix is, you must use alsamixer in a terminal rather 
than using gnome-volume-control utility.

I have played with slider control that there is in alsa mixer and 
haven't yet been able to hear anything being picked up by my mic(which I 
just verified works on my Ubuntu laptop using the Maestro2 driver).  I 
have selected ALSA in GNOME for both input and output.  When running the 
tests under the GNOME multimedia system selector tool, sometimes the 
input test comes back with an error saying that it can't make a pipe or 
something(I'm not at my computer now).

Furthermore, I noticed that on my laptop, the Maestro2 driver creates a 
capture tab in the GNOME volume control tool whereas the emu10k1 doesn't.

Anyone have any thoughts or experience that would be helpful here?