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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.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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