On 28.01.2012, at 13:55, Chris Muller wrote:

I just know I've used the voice-recorder before and it worked.

But now I'm trying to record a phrase and getting garbled results. It's strange -- it's definitely my voice but as if the recording is missing lots of short sections..

I went all the way back to a stock Squeak 3.8 with the 2202 VM. It had the same problem. Which makes me wonder whether there's something wrong with my Linux driver? But Ubuntu's voice recorder seems to work fine..

Yes, Linux sound evolved while the Squeak VM didn't quite keep up. But recently Ian has been looking at this again.

You may have more luck with Derek's vm-pulse-audio module:

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9527

- Bert -