Yes, pulseaudio does seem to be the problem. I managed to fix it by a coincidence.
The following link is to a bug report about the erratic time elapsed shown by gnome-sound-recorder: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/282316 There is a fix there in Daniel Chen's PPA. When I added the PPA (https://launchpad.net/~crimsun/+archive), it upgraded pulseaudio as well as alsa-plugins, and my problems were fixed. It was a combination of a fix in libasound2 (which fixed gnome-sound-recorder) and pulseaudio which fixed my recording problem. I am not sure if this should be marked as a duplicate of 282316, because the problem also includes pulseaudio but the fix is out there in Chen's PPA. -- Mic not working in Ubuntu 8.10 Laptop with Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293050 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