alsamixer mystery functions

[chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org]

I've been soliciting help on another list. They are taking a while getting 
back to me so I thought I'd run a couple of mysteries by you. 

"Under ALSA mixer you need the switches tab, which allows you to select
which input you are recording from.  You turn up the levels under the
recording tab, which has a master called capture." 

I have NO tabs in alsamixer or alsamixer gui. alsamixer is just a row of 
level bars. The only "tabs" is the use of the [Tab] button on the keyboard 
that only lets you select among [Playback], [Capture], and [All] which just 
shows you some or all of the level bars. 

Also, another user referred to 'Preferences' in the 'Edit' menu. I have no 
menus at all in alsamixer or alsamixergui. 

?!?! 

Chris
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists