Help with Audacity on Kubuntu 8.04

[Rick Knight]

Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2008/9/19 Rick Knight <rick_knight at rlknight.com>:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm trying to record some vinyl using Audacity and having no success. I
>> have an Audio Technica USB turntable with line out. I have the line out
>> connected to the line in on my sound card. I can play the vinyl through
>> my PC speakers but I cannot get Audacity to record it. In Kmix I have
>> the record input set to line1 and line1 is not muted. In audacity I have
>> the record source set to OSS:/dev/dsp, same setting for playback device.
>>     
>
> Are you sure you need to use OSS? Should you not select your ALSA input?
>
> / Jonas
>
>   
No, I'm not sure I need OSS. I tried the ALSA devices but they didn't 
work either and they gave me an error that OSS didn't give me (Error 
while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and 
the project sample rate.). Now that I have Audacity working with OSS 
I've gone back and tried the ALSA drivers and they still don't work and 
still give the same error message. Is there a trick to setting up 
Audacity with ALSA on Kubuntu?

Thanks,
Rick