I use mandrive LE2005 and encounter a problem with sound recording.
My hardware is a VIA k8m800 with VIA8237 and AC97 onboard chip and a webcam USB Labtec Webcam pro with integrated microphone.
So, when i try to record a sound or use gnomemeeting with the webcam microphone, everything goes well, but the sound quality is bad due to cheap hardware. So i decided to buy a real microphone plugged to the sound card.
But when i try to record with it, the app just hangs waiting. With krecord the time counter doesn't start at all, and so no data is recorded, as with arecord. With gnomemeeting, the hardware wizard hangs and i have to kill it.
I hear my voice played back to the speaker and can tune it with kmix, i have tried all that can be tried in alsamixer, tried voodoo with draksound and alsaconf, i even tried OSS without ALSA from draksound : nothing can be recorded.
Suspecting IRQ conflict, i stopped USB and restarted ALSA with VIA837 alone on IRQ 5 : nothing.
Everything works well out of the box with XP SP2 and SUSE 9.3 Live DVD, so my harware seems to work fine.
If someone has an idea...