[SOLVED]Microphone won't work

I am sure the microphone is fine -- it used to work well on my previous OS (ubuntu), and when I speak it makes sound on the speakers. But, if I try to record, nothing is recorded. I went to alsamixer, pressed F4 and turned all capture devices to maximum -- nothing. Any help?
Last edited by pedro3005 (2010-11-07 11:39:19)

I am using Audacity to record. I went to the preferences and tried selecting different devices (the options were HDA Intel: ALC662 rev1 Analog (hw:0,0), the same thing but (hw:0,1), default and spdif). Selecting (hw:0,1), some weird bug happens that the time marker doesn't go past zero. With (hw:0,0) I get a lot of static noise. With spdif I get the same as (hw:0,1), and default was the one previously selected.
Here's what alsamixer looks like (I've tried setting all of them to CAPTURE too, but it made no difference):
EDIT: It worked! I changed both of the Input Source options to "Mic" and now it works perfectly. Thanks for the patience everyone.
Last edited by pedro3005 (2010-11-07 11:38:56)

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