Hi, I can't choose new devices with Audacity. When I try, Audacity immediately crashes. I think I need to change my device because I don't get any input signal when I record, nor does playback make any sound. I'd prefer a different behavior, and I'm hoping that someone here has helpful suggestions. For what it's worth, I'm running on hardware that worked just fine with Mandriva 2007.0. I say that as I think I can rule out hardware troubles. I very recently got Amarok's playback to make sound on this system once I disabled Pulse Audio on the sound cards, and selected the Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 card connected to my computer speakers. /proc/asound/cards contains: 0 [pcsp ]: PC-Speaker - pcsp Internal PC-Speaker at port 0x61 1 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xa800, irq 19 2 [M1010 ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta 1010 M Audio Delta 1010 at 0xa400, irq 18 3 [M1010_1 ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta 1010 M Audio Delta 1010 at 0x9400, irq 17 I want to use device #1, the ENS1371, in the above list. When I bring up the the Audacity Preferences "Devices" configuration dialog the default settings are an OSS host with /dev/dsp as the playback device and /dev/dsp1 as the recording device. In the "Interface" section of the dialog there's a line saying: Using: PortAudio V19-devel (built Oct 20 2009 10:02:01) The dialog provices me with thes choices. OSS playback /dev/dsp /dev/dsp3 recording /dev/dsp1 /dev/dsp3 ALSA playback pcsp: pcsp (hw1:0,0) Ensoniq AudioPCI: ES1371 DAC1 (hw1:1,1) M Audio Delta 1010: ICE1721 multi (hw3:0) front default dmix recording Ensoniq AudioPCI: ES1371 DAC2/ADC (hw1:1,0) M Audio Delta 1010: ICE1721 multi (hw3:0) default If I alter the playback or recording devices, then simpling clicking on "OK" for the dialog is enough to cause Audacity to crash. After trying Audacity, I started to try with Ardour, then ran out of time. I left QJackCtl running, which means that today I get additional choices in Audacity as I write this help request. Those choices are: JACK Audio Connection Kit recording alsa_pcm system playback alsa_pcm system It turns out that I _CAN_ choose the JACK default alsa_pcm devices and click OK and have Audacity continue to run. I don't know if it plays or records as I'm far from the computer now. Maybe the answer is to alter the default card of my three cards to be the Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371 card. I remember doing this kind of thing before in /etc/modprobe.conf to get the modules to load in the order of my preference. Would anyone recommend for or against that? When Audacity starts, it complains with these lines: Expression '*idev = open( idevName, flags )' \ failed in 'src/hostapi/oss/pa_unix_oss.c', line: 811 Expression 'OpenDevices( idevName, odevName, &idev, &odev )' \ failed in 'src/hostapi/oss/pa_unix_oss.c', line: 857 Expression 'PaOssStream_Initialize( stream, inputParameters, \ outputParameters, streamCallback, userData, streamFlags, \ ossHostApi )' failed in 'src/hostapi/oss/pa_unix_oss.c', line: 1234 When Audacity crashes, it complains with this line: audacity: pcm_params.c:2348: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed. Any suggetions? Anybody? Thanks.... -- Kevin