Hey everyone, I've had this great HP laptop for the past 4 years with no need (of course there's always a want) to upgrade. And of all this time, I never had a problem with it, until now. Out of the past 4 years, I've never needed to use my microphone for anything, but lately I've been sent overseas a lot for work and needing to keep in contact, decided to start skype to call back home. That's when I noticed that my microphone didn't work at all. I thought it would be skype, but trying to use gnome-sound-recorder proved that to be wrong. Nothing is coming through. I've tried running 'alsaconf' again, I've tried a huge number of .asoundrc setups, using different microphones, everything that I can imagine. I'm out of ideas, would anyone have anything else I can try? Has anyone run into this problem before? Thanks, Will