Hi Jan, Thanks, but I am using Gnome 2.8 (standard with Ubuntu) & I don't have any KDE stuff on my system (I am not a fan of KDE). Gavin. So back to square one, I'm afraid.. > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:25:09 -0600 > From: Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Audacity error > To: A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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.
