Subject: Re: /dev/audio not working?
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@quick.com.au>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/09/1998 04:13:25 
You *are* using the `mic' port rather than the `line in' port, right?
And you checked the battery in the mic?

Try compiling the audio/xmmix package (or using mixerctl(1)) and
fiddling with the volume control.