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Hi
Is the Mic on X61 not good enough in term of sound/recording quality or I setup wrong?
Please advice, because my friend hardly heard me when we doing voicechat in Yahoo IM
Thanks
LD

It is possible that you might be having a problem with the audio drivers. I encountered this, and my microphone levels were really, really low.

Here's a thread that describes problem and solution: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=58687

In a nutshell, replace the version 5670 drivers with the 5410 drivers for the audio subsystem.

After making the change, microphone sensitivity improved a *lot* (ie from practically zero), now speech recognition works really well.