Re: Audacity and playback device
On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 23:00, Jule Slootbeek wrote:
>
> I got my sound working fine on a iBook2 running Debian, but when i installed
> Audacity to do some sound editing it couldn't detect a playback device. In
> the Preferences the only option was /dev/dsp. I tried all other sound devices
> i could think of, but nothing worked. XMMS works fine using OSS does anybody
> have any idea as to how i can get Audacity working??
The underlying problem is a bug in the dmasound driver which causes it
to stop working if /dev/dsp is opened for reading. You have to rmmod it
for it to work again.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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