[CentOS] recording sound: how 2 control recording level?

fredex wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering if I should change my desktop to KDE and try with its sound
> tools. I suppose it couldn't harm anything to try.


You can use KDE if you want, of course system-wide settings and 
user-wide settings apply in both. You can also run under GNOME, or even 
add to the GNOME menus the KDE applications that you like. Also CentOS 5 
  is far superior to CentOS 4, regarding user apps and tools, so perhaps 
you may want to give CentOS 5.0 a try, it is very good and *faster*!


What's your sound card BTW? Perhaps you may have some driver problem?