[LAU] Congrats to Audacity team

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 12:06 +0100, rosea grammostola wrote:
> Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 10:50 +0100, rosea grammostola wrote:
> >   
> >> Ray Rashif wrote:
> >>     
> >>> 2009/12/12 Jonathan E. Brickman <jeb at joshuacorps.org 
> >>> <mailto:jeb at joshuacorps.org>>
> >>>
> >>>     Have been using Audacity 1.3.10-beta-unicode, on Debian Testing
> >>>     64, and
> >>>     I must say, major congrats.  I am using it with the Jack driver,
> >>>     since I
> >>>     keep Jack on all the time; very very good!!!
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> I only can choose between ALSA and OSS in audacity
> >>
> >> When I start audacity from unstable with Jack2 I get:
> >>
> >>
> >> jack_client_new: deprecated
> >> no message buffer overruns
> >> jack_client_new: deprecated
> >> no message buffer overruns
> >> jack_client_new: deprecated
> >> no message buffer overruns
> >> jack_client_new: deprecated
> >> no message buffer overruns
> >> audacity: pcm_plug.c:388: snd_pcm_plug_change_channels: Assertion 
> >> `snd_pcm_format_linear(slv->format)' failed.
> >> Aborted
> >>     
> >
> > Precisely the problem I had, the convulated workaround I got was to
> > enable another sound-card (besides my in-built) and then choose JACK
> > from the preferences. If I didn't have the other soundcard it would just
> > crash on choosing JACK.
> >
> > Also, depending on how you installed it you may not have compiled in
> > JACK support?
> >
> >
> >   
> Just installed it from the debian unstable repo

You may want to check whether it is JACK enabled. I've only ever used
the debian derivative Ubuntu, and I'm not sure whether they also have
that ridiculous "cannot link to apps in different repos" rule that
prevented JACK support for some apps.