Indeed, on a fully up-to-date hardy system, after installing linux- image-generic from intrepid (along with linux-firmware and linux- image-2.6.27-7-generic) and rebooting, arecord works just fine and capute from the webcam mic no problem. All thing being equal, this point to a problem with the kernel.
And it must be something rather specific 2.6.24. For kicks, I installed gutsy (kernel 2.6.22-14), and recording using arecord worked out-of-the- box, no killing of hald required. -- Built-in microphone on Lenovo USB webcam doesn't work when hald is running https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/310760 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
