On 2 Aug, Roman Joost wrote: > Anyone know, how to choose the Soundcard with the Alsa Drivers? I tried > following: > > ecasound -i alsa,1,0 -o test.wav > ERROR: [ECA-CHAINSETUP] : "Enabling chainsetup: AUDIOIO-ALSA2: Unable to open ALSA-device for capture; error: Sound protocol is not compatible" Looks like you're trying to use a version of ecasound that was compiled for ALSA 0.5 with ALSA 0.9 (see /usr/share/doc/ecasound/README.Debian).