Kowash Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Hi I would like to record on my laptop by using my sound Card. Currently my soundcard is working fine. As soon as I start using Audacity to record, it causes my soundcard to stop working. I am not able to use the sound card at all and then Audacity does not want to function either. Is there another program I can use, or am I not using it correct. Do I need diiferent drivers? Kowash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 start up audacity, go into edit->preferences->audio i/o, and check what devices is set as output... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kowash Posted March 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 start up audacity, go into edit->preferences->audio i/o, and check what devices is set as output... I tried that. The problem I have is that it does not detect any devices. Even if I change drivers of my soundcard. I will try it anyways. What should I do if I know? Kowash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 are you in KDE? i don't have much experience with audacity, it's just always worked for me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 26, 2006 Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 Possible issue with the (f)arts daemon. Try firing Audacity from another window manager, e.g. IceWM. If it works then it's an arts issue... so stop (within KDE) artsd before firing Audacity. Another solution would be compiling Audacity to use OSS emulation instead of alsa- I believe Thac had at some time in his repos both audacity-alsa and audacity-oss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 I would start by disabling arts, as scarecrow suggested - if you're using KDE. To further help us - could you tell us what soundcard (or laptop) you have and if you made any changes to the default ALSA setup of Mndriva? Also, what DE / WM are you running (Gnome, KDE, etc.) and what version of Audacity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalex20 Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 Another solution would be compiling Audacity to use OSS emulation instead of alsa Audacity uses OSS by default and not ALSA. It should be compiled with some special parameters to use ALSA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 There are some other sound recorders, I've used one of them - forgot the name. Just check start - multimedia - sound, or mcc - software installation and search for sound recording in descriptions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tl017 Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 Hi Kowash, I always use KHdRecord. Its a small programm able to record in ogg, mp3 or wav format. It is also able to count up from a base name, though that previous soundfiles will not be overridden. I think I got it from sourceforge.net (I´m not sure). Good luck, tl017 PS: There was a "bug" in the program: the binary files "KHdRecord" and "KHdRecordRemote" were not executable after download. After changing this the program works fine for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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