VIA onboard audio controller and integrated mic

[Angeliqe]

I have a Soyo KT600 Dragon Plus v.1 motherboard which has a VIA integrated sound card. Alsa is compiled into the kernel and playing sound works fine. I just can't get anything to record from the mic jack on the sound card.

Detailed info:
Linux angeliqe 2.6.21-gentoo #1 Wed May 9 19:48:21 EDT 2007 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
PCI: MSI-K8T-Neo2Fir, attempting to turn soundcard ON
PCI: MSI-K8T-Neo2Fir, soundcard on
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc3 (Wed Mar 14 07:25:50 2007 UTC).

If I run, as root
arecord -d 10 -f cd -t wav -v foobar.wav
I get

Plug PCM: Rate conversion PCM (48000, sformat=S16_LE)
Its setup is:
stream : CAPTURE
access : RW_INTERLEAVED
format : S16_LE
subformat : STD
channels : 2
rate : 44100
exact rate : 44100 (44100/1)
msbits : 16
buffer_size : 15052
period_size : 940
period_time : 21333
tick_time : 0
tstamp_mode : NONE
period_step : 1
sleep_min : 0
avail_min : 940
xfer_align : 940
start_threshold : 1
stop_threshold : 15052
silence_threshold: 0
silence_size : 0
boundary : 986447872
Slave: Direct Snoop PCM
Its setup is:
stream : CAPTURE
access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
format : S16_LE
subformat : STD
channels : 2
rate : 48000
exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
msbits : 16
buffer_size : 16384
period_size : 1024
period_time : 21333
tick_time : 0
tstamp_mode : NONE
period_step : 1
sleep_min : 0
avail_min : 1024
xfer_align : 1024
start_threshold : 1
stop_threshold : 16384
silence_threshold: 0
silence_size : 0
boundary : 1073741824
Hardware PCM card 0 'VIA 8237' device 0 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
stream : CAPTURE
access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
format : S16_LE
subformat : STD
channels : 2
rate : 48000
exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
msbits : 16
buffer_size : 16384
period_size : 1024
period_time : 21333
tick_time : 4000
tstamp_mode : NONE
period_step : 1
sleep_min : 0
avail_min : 1024
xfer_align : 1024
start_threshold : 1
stop_threshold : 1073741824
silence_threshold: 0
silence_size : 0
boundary : 1073741824

but nothing is recorded. I have all of the channels unmuted and turned all the way up in alsamixer and mic selected under the capture section. I'm not sure what else I'm missing. I've found references to similar issues and a couple posts said something about enabling full duplex for the sound card, but that setting was in dmix configuration files. With the newer alsa, dmix is setup automatically for cards that don't do hardware mixing. I'm kinda lost at this point.

If I talk really loud into the mic, I hear it coming through the speakers, so the mic still works. Not sure why it's autofeeding through the speakers though. Probably has to do with all of my sound settings being full blast.