Sound system/audacity problem? [solved]

[satelliteuser083]

I accidentally clicked on a web-site which played some music or another, and now, when I start audacity, I get the message:

Error while opening sound device. 
Please check the output device settings and the project sample rate.

I tried 'service alsa restart' as root, with the following result:

Doing alsactl to store mixer settings...						[  OK  ]
Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.13):			   [  OK  ]
Starting ALSA version 1.0.13: intel8x0.						 [  OK  ]
Doing alsactl to restore mixer settings:						[  OK  ]

but audacity still responds with the same error. A reboot also has zero effect.

 

I'm using 2007 on a Thinkpad-T42. MCC says that the sound-system is an 'Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller' and the driver is '‎i810_audio'. BTW, 'Test Sound' works correctly.

 

A similar problem occurred regularly on my Tosh Sat Pro 4600, perhaps this is a common problem with ALSA and/or audacity?

Could someone help me out? Thanks.

Edited May 16, 2008 by satelliteuser083

[scarecrow]

To my poor knowledge Audacity does not work with Pulse Audio, so If you are using Mandriva 2008.1 you have to disable Pulse before using Audacity.

 

PS: just saw you're using 2007... oops!

Do you have the alsa OSS emulator installed? (query rpmdrake for "alsa-oss" or something very similar).

[satelliteuser083]

It's called 'aoss' and it wasn't installed. So, I did just that, changed audacity's playback/record-devices to 'OSS:/dev/dsp' and... it works :D . Many, many thanks for the spot-on analysis. :thumbs: