ADI AD1986A no input on ubuntu10.10

[Wales]

I have an ADI AD1986A audio chip. I'm running ubuntu10.10 on an asus p5gv-mx board. The sound outputs find but I can't get any input on the mic. hardware works in windows, just not ubuntu. I have checked the mic levels, and I have set it to highest setting, all i hear is static. I have also tried the sound recorder to see if that would init mic but nothing, just silence. I'm a total noob with linux so i'm not sure how to diagnose it or what to do about this problem. Any help would be appreciated.

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome.
First of all, make sure your system is completely updated, including newer kernels if one is available. Can you open a terminal window and post the output of these commands please?

This one tells us what hardware you have and the loaded modules/drivers.

sudo lspci -knn

this one tells us all modules/drivers currently loaded.

sudo lsmod

Also, try alsamixer command to make sure nothing is muted.

alsamixer

Try the alsa-info command also, I think it's available in Ubuntu, if you get command not found, just skip this part.

alsa-info