Voice chat

[Tom Richards]

I recently tried to use the voice chat while playing ut2k4 on my linux box.  When i go to hit F, the music gets quite, as if i'm actually saying 
something, but there is no level meter showing.  My friends whom I was playin with stated that they could know when i was going to talk because their 
music died down also, but no speech came out.  I am running kernel version 2.6.5 with alsa support built in.  anyone have a similar issue?

Thank you
Tom