Thanks for the suggestion Teej, I hadn't tried Natty Narwhal yet. I booted Alpha 3 and tested sound recorder with no joy. Should I post any specific outputs? "arecord -v -Dhw:0,0,2 -f cd test.wav" did throw a different error...
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ arecord -v -Dhw:0,0,2 -f cd test.wav Recording WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel' device 0 subdevice 2 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 : 22016 period_size : 5504 period_time : 124807 tstamp_mode : NONE period_step : 1 avail_min : 5504 period_event : 0 start_threshold : 1 stop_threshold : 22016 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 6196953087261802496 appl_ptr : 0 hw_ptr : 0 arecord: pcm_read:1773: read error: Input/output error -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677734 Title: [VIA VT1702] Recording problem / Sound Recorder does not pick up sound -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs