Re: [linux-audio-user] Audacity error

My first guess would be that artsd or some other sound thing is
running. Try killall -9 artsd and see if that helps. If you're using
KDE even the stinking system beep starts up artsd.

Jan

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 17:52, Gavin Stevens wrote:
> (de-lurk mode)
>
> Hi all,
>
> I keep getting an error when starting Audacity. It reads "There was an
> error initialising the audio i/o layer. You will not be able to play
> audio".
>
> It then starts & works, apart from not being able to play what it is
> doing.
>
> The strange thing is that it worked fine the first time I used it (I
> recently "rested" Debian in order to try Ubuntu, so it's a new
> installation). Every time since then, it has shown this error.
>
> Everything else seems to be working fine on the audio front: XMMS is
> happy, MIDI is working, even Audacity is functioning, but I have to play
> files saved in Audacity via XMMS.
>
> Is there something silly that I've missed? I can't work out why it would
> play audio once & then not subsequently.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Gavin.
Received on Tue Mar 22 04:15:32 2005