$ lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) $ arecord -l **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC272X Analog [ALC272X Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 $ pactl list sources (cut out unrelevent info here) Source #1 State: SUSPENDED Name: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo Description: Internal Audio Analog Stereo Driver: module-alsa-card.c Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz Channel Map: front-left,front-right Owner Module: 4 Mute: no Volume: 0: 100% 1: 100% 0: 0.00 dB 1: 0.00 dB balance 0.00 Base Volume: 10% -60.00 dB Monitor of Sink: n/a Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY Properties: alsa.resolution_bits = "16" device.api = "alsa" device.class = "sound" alsa.class = "generic" alsa.subclass = "generic-mix" alsa.name = "ALC272X Analog" alsa.id = "ALC272X Analog" alsa.subdevice = "0" alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0" alsa.device = "0" alsa.card = "0" alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel" alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel at 0x58200000 irq 44" alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel" device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0" sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0" device.bus = "pci" device.vendor.id = "8086" device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation" device.product.name = "N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller" device.form_factor = "internal" device.string = "front:0" device.buffering.buffer_size = "352800" device.buffering.fragment_size = "176400" device.access_mode = "mmap+timer" device.profile.name = "analog-stereo" device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo" device.description = "Internal Audio Analog Stereo" alsa.mixer_name = "Realtek ALC272X" alsa.components = "HDA:10ec0272,10250002,00100001" module-udev-detect.discovered = "1" device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci" Ports: analog-input: Analog Input (priority. 10000) analog-input-microphone: Analog Microphone (priority. 8700) Active Port: analog-input-microphone Formats: pcm $ pulseaudio -vvvvv I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us. D: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: RealtimeKit worked. I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 1.1 D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -W -Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 3.3.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 23 09:41:07 CEST 2012 D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 2 CPUs. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes D: [pulseaudio] main.c: All asserts enabled. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is d248ba7c7b2f1c4eb5b29c0f00000200. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is d248ba7c7b2f1c4eb5b29c0f00000200-1335812892.506866-1397291734. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /home/dan/.pulse/d248ba7c7b2f1c4eb5b29c0f00000200-runtime. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/dan/.pulse. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-1.1/modules. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.