Message: 2 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:25:09 -0600 From: Jan Depner &lt;eviltwin69(a)cableone.net&gt; Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Audacity error To: A list for linux audio users &lt;linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu&gt; Message-ID: <1111451109.5277.7.camel@eviltwin> Content-Type: text/plain My first guess would be that artsd or some other sound thing is running. Try killall -9 artsd and see if that helps. If you're using KDE even the stinking system beep starts up artsd. Jan On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 17:52, Gavin Stevens wrote: > (de-lurk mode) > > Hi all, > > I keep getting an error when starting Audacity. It reads "There was > an error initialising the audio i/o layer. You will not be able to > play audio". > > It then starts & works, apart from not being able to play what it is > doing. > > The strange thing is that it worked fine the first time I used it (I > recently "rested" Debian in order to try Ubuntu, so it's a new > installation). Every time since then, it has shown this error. > > Everything else seems to be working fine on the audio front: XMMS is > happy, MIDI is working, even Audacity is functioning, but I have to > play files saved in Audacity via XMMS. > > Is there something silly that I've missed? I can't work out why it > would play audio once & then not subsequently. > > Any help appreciated. > > TIA > > Gavin.