satelliteuser083 Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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