Re: Audacity sound problem
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:31:13 -0500, Darryl Clarke <smartssa@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 01:48:33 +0530, Micheal Mukherji
> <michy.mighty@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can play sound with xmms, mplayer etc.
> > I use esd.
> >
> > Audacity reports"Could not Initialize sound, host error"
> > I made sure that no audio appl was holding the sound device.
> I get the same error when I try to load Audacity.
>
> I'm guessing it's not happy when it comes to gnome's multimedia system and ESD.
Right from Audacity's website...
" Are you using a soundserver like aRts (commonly found with KDE) or
esd (commonly found with GNOME)? If so, you will need to kill it first
before using Audacity! Example:
killall esd "
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Darryl
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