More comments after more testing... The output from arecord -l:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: default [Camera ], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Trying arecord -D hw:1,0 > test.wav says "arecord: main:546: audio open error: Device or resource busy" However... I don't think I was correct to blame the kernel module for this: finally I managed to squeeze some sound from my usb camera mic by installing bplay and invoking: brec -d /dev/audio1 That captured the sound from my microphone flawlessly. Trying to do the same through gnome-sound-recorder fails (it captures from the integrated card with no option to change the source) Trying to change System->Preferences->Sound->Sound Capture to USB Audio causes gnome-sound-recorder to report: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." -- Microphone on a USB Logitech Quickcam does not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219927 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs