Debian 7.6 “Wheezy” AMD64. Audacity 2.0.1.
It finds the mic, no problem. I have tried setting mono, and stereo.
No matter what I do, whenever I try to record, I keep getting that error.
Audacity digital defaults may not be appropriate for all sound devices.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_errors.html#sound_device
Koz