On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 12:58 -0700, stan wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I'm using audacity with jack under F9 to record audio coming in through > > my computer's line input. Everything seems to work OK, except that no > > signal appears in the input VU meter or in the displayed waveform. The > > recording is silent. A little web searching turned up this snippet: > > > > Audacity doesn't support PulseAudio, nor Esound for the moment. > > You'll have to kill or suspend pulseaudio before you use this > > application. Audacity uses the PortAudio cross-platform Audio > > API which doesnt support pulseaudio. Some work was started on > > making portaudio support PulseAudio but this does not appear to > > be under active development currently and does not work in it's > > current state. > > > > In F8 under KDE, I was able to stop the aRts sound server, and record > > successfully. F9 with Gnome appears to use both PulseAudio and EsounD. > > It's easy to stop PulseAudio, using something like: > > pasuspender -- audacity <argument> > > but there doesn't seem to be any way to stop EsounD. > > > > Has anyone used audacity successfully with jack? Or any other way? > > > > > Yes, I use audacity on Fedora 9. I do not use pulse at all, though it > is installed and disabled (not temporarily suspended). I am not using > jack, though that probably isn't your issue. I am using the audacity > 1.3.6 beta, and I compiled and installed it from the tarball. I have > used the line in successfully to record. It was necessary to select > it as the mic is usually the default. alsamixer then F4, and select > the recording source. > > As far as I know the way to turn off the esound server is esdctl off > . I think esound is just an alias for pulse at this point. I seem > to recall tracing this down and finding that. So suspending pulse > should suspend esound. > I've been able to get audacity to work without disabling pulseaudio by installing audacity-nonfree (1.3.4-0.7.20080123cvs.lvn9) instead of audacity. Jerry -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
