[Sussex] Audacity error

[Gavin Stevens]

Hi Rupert,

Thanks. I took a look round & lsmod just showed what I would expect. So
I explored the possibility of another sound server running somewhere. I
discovered that Gnome starts its own sound server so that it can play
sounds for system events. I can live without this quite happily as I
only have headphones connected at the moment & I have no intention of
wearing 'phones just so I can hear a tinkly bell or jingle every few
minutes.

Anyway, I disabled the Gnome sound server & Audacity started up with no
error messages & now plays audio again (sort of handy for an audio app).

Thanks,

Gavin.

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:42:35 +0000
Rupert Swarbrick <rupert.swarbrick at lineone.net> wrote:

> That does happen if something else is using the sound device at the
> same time, although maybe audacity gives a more specific error message
> (I can't remember).
> 
> Make sure that xmms et al. aren't running when you try to use
> audacity.
> 
> Otherwise, maybe some sort of sound server is using it?
> 
> Or maybe it's something completely different! :-)
> 
> Rupert
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm having a problem with the sound editor, Audacity. It worked fine
> >the first time I ran it in Ubuntu, but ever since then it displays an
> >error message: "There was an error initialising the audio i/o layer.
> >You will not be able to play or record audio. Error: HOST ERROR".
> >
> >Audacity starts up after this message & will edit & save files quite
> >happily, but it won't play anything. I have to play any saved files
> >in XMMS. The preferences screen in Audacity doesn't offer anything to
> >select in either playback or recording device options
> >
> >I can't see what the problem can be. I didn't make any changes
> >between the first & second time I opened Audacity.
> >
> >XMMS is happy, MIDI is working. All seems well as far as I can
> >determine.
> >
> >If it helps, I have Gnome 2.8, no KDE stuff at all (KDE artsd was
> >suggested as a possible problem in a Linux Audio Group), ALSA
> >(although I can also use OSS).
> >
> >Any help appreciated,
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Gavin.
> >
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