Comment 6 for bug 178895

Well, here's a pulseaudio bug from a year ago: http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/50 But I don't think the recording problem got solved.

Technically speaking, in terms of an ideal solution, the "bug" should probably be in PortAudio which fails to have a PortAudio backend, as far as I can tell.

However, those error messages, Nick, are probably a result of padsp not performing as expected. (But that may be by design -- it's impossible to emulate mmaped audio through padsp.) Audacity worked just fine with plain ALSA and plain OSS, last I checked on Gutsy.

(Can anybody reconfirm this bug with Hardy?)