[linux-audio-user] Audacity error

[Jan Depner]

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.