At Sat, 23 May 2009 14:17:16 -0400, wirechief wrote:

upon further review attempts have been un-successfull in getting the mic to work with arecord -Ddefault:1 -f cd -vv /dev/null also am finding this in dmesg: [ 11.684245] hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC272, trying auto-probe from BIOS.. my alsa http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=754f6ed51b0e45bf78662e50bde8f26546fb2bb4

Did you choose "Mic" as the input source? The default "model=auto" has no automatic mic-switching yet, so you'll have to choose the recording source manually.

Takashi