Sound recording blues

[ubuntu at rio.vg]

Johann Spies wrote:
> 
> Which soundcard do you have?  I have had a similar problem with an
> nvidia -based system.  At the moment and after many hours I have an
> OSS-based sound system working with nvidia's own driver and alsa not
> working as it should.  At least I can play music and make recordings
> using a microphone and programs like audacity and gnusound  - but no
> arecord or aplay...

The nvidia sound driver from their website is an OSS driver.  It is not
an ALSA driver, so anything that only uses ALSA won't work with it.