Bug#512786: Recording stopped working

[Pierre Etchemaïté]

Same problem here (recording "stops" after a few seconds for all
audacity versions > 1.3.5; works correctly with 1.3.5), but with a
different soundcard (cheap "soundcard" bundled with my laptop,
actually):

$ cat /proc/asound/cards 
 0 [I82801CAICH3   ]: ICH - Intel 82801CA-ICH3
                      Intel 82801CA-ICH3 with YMF753 at irq 11
 1 [Modem          ]: ICH-MODEM - Intel 82801CA-ICH3 Modem
                      Intel 82801CA-ICH3 Modem at irq 11

$ lspci -v
[...]
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
	I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
	I/O ports at 1880 [size=64]
	Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
[...]

$ lsmod|grep snd
snd_seq_dummy           2464  0 
snd_seq_oss            25472  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      6780  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_pcm_oss            35168  0 
snd_mixer_oss          15772  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0m          13000  0 
snd_intel8x0           27800  4 
snd_ac97_codec         92892  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                1468  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                70820  5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq                44496  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              20448  3 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          6600  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd                    52964  16 snd_seq_oss,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               7232  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          8452  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm