Thank you for coming back with a reply Cuddles. I'll try ReZound.

I did a couple of naughty things, I tried out the Window$ version of Audacity with the the onboard VIA82xx and it seems to work fine at 44.1k..... drat!

The other bad thing I did was break ALSA, so that OSS is back working. It doesn't support the onboard VIA so I plugged in an old es1370 sound card. (Okay that three things I did!) - I can now make my recordings.

It seems that with the snd_via82xx driver I'm stuck with 48k sample rate and that the current bianry for Audacity only supports OSS. The OSS emulation in ALSA doesn't seem to work very well and the recordings that I did make were clipped and badly distorted, changing the levels didn't fix this.

Audacity can be compiled with ALSA support but wouldn't for me, must be missing something. (see the Audacity wiki http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/ind...pilingAudacity ).

I'll wait before trying ALSA again!

Thanks!