I have a Compaq nx9010 laptop with built in Southbridge Audio. Because
it has a flaky head phone jack and the line-in recording quality was bad
I bought a SB Audigy 2 ZS PC Card. The SB seems to have disabled the
Southbridge because the notebook speakers don't work anymore. But the
headphone output of the SB is great. The problem is that I use Audacity
1.3 on Mandriva 2007 PWP KDE with all the updates as of 12/16/06 and
line-in recording does not work. Audacity states "Error while opening
sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project
sample rate."

Here is my config for sound for both Mandriva and KDE...

*** According to Mandriva Hardware Probe ****

Identification
Vendor: ‎Creative Labs
Description: ‎SB0400 Audigy2 Value
Media class: ‎MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO
Connection
Bus: ‎PCI
Bus PCI #: ‎2
PCI device #: ‎0
PCI function #: ‎0
Vendor ID: ‎0x1102
Device ID: ‎0x0008
Sub vendor ID: ‎0x1102
Sub device ID: ‎0x2001
Driver
Module: ‎snd-emu10k1
Alternative drivers: ‎audigy, emu10k1

Identification
Vendor: ‎Acer Labs Inc.
Description: ‎M5451 PCI South Bridge Audio
Media class: ‎MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO
Connection
Bus: ‎PCI
Bus PCI #: ‎0
PCI device #: ‎6
PCI function #: ‎0
Vendor ID: ‎0x10b9
Device ID: ‎0x5451
Sub vendor ID: ‎0x103c
Sub device ID: ‎0x0850
Driver
Module: ‎snd-ali5451
Alternative drivers: ‎trident
******************************

******* According to KDE Probe ****
Sound Driver:3.8.1a980706(ASLA v1.0.12.emulation code)
Kernel: Linux nx9010 2.6.17-6dazuko #1 SMP 12/16/06
Config options: 0
Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config: Audigy 2 ZS Notebook [SB0503] ( rev.0, serial:0x20011102)
at 0x1800, irq 11
Audio devices: 0:ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
MIDI devices: 0:Audigy MPU401 (UART)
Timers: 7:system timer
Mixers: 0: SB Audigy
*********************************************

When I run Audacity from the console I get:
[jeff@nx9010 ~]$ audaacity
bash: audaacity: command not found
[jeff@nx9010 ~]$ audacity
Expression 'SetApproximateSampleRate( pcm, hwParams, sr )' failed in
'pa_linux_alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1100
Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_InitialConfigure( &self->capture,
inParams, self->primeBuffers, hwParamsCapture, &realSr )' failed in
'pa_linux_alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1651
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Configure( stream, inputParameters,
outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, &inputLatency,
&outputLatency, &hostBufferSizeMode )' failed in
'pa_linux_alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1775


I would really appreciate it someone could help me get the SB line-in
recording working with Audacity.

Thanks,
Dan