Not 100% sure if this is correct on my part ... but if some other process is using the audio driver, then Audacity can't. So, stop the other process using the driver :) In my Gusty I run KDE and have set the Auto-Suspend after idle in System Settings -> Sound. I run this with a 30 second timeout. So, if I have a mp3 player running I just stop it; wait 30 seconds, then run audacity and it all works. It appears your friend has the correct audio drivers. hope this helps. Christian Einfeldt wrote: > hi > > I and a friend are both having problems using Audacity to edit music > files. In my case, I am trying to edit an .ogg vorbis file, and in his > case, he is trying to edit a file that he recorded with Audacity. He is > a 69 year-old man, and I am trying to assist him over the phone, so it > is kind of hard to get complete details from him, but, fortunately, I am > having the same problem on my Gutsy install with Audacity 1.3.3-beta. > Here is the exact error message that we are getting: > > Error while opening sound device. Please check the output device > settings and the project sample rate. > > I have googled and found that there are a lot of problems with Gutsy > getting this error message. The suggested solutions fall into two > camps, neither of which has worked for me. The first camp is grepping > for the jackd process and killing it in the shell; the second involves > making sure that you have sound privileges (we do) and that you are > using the correct sound device (not sure how to tell about that). The > helpful links on these topics are below: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=710881 > > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/26900 > > Grepping, I get no responses to jackd at all: > > cje@rb:~$ ps -e|grep jackd > cje@rb:~$ ps -A | grep jackd > cje@rb:~$ ps -A | grep jack* > cje@rb:~$ ps -A | grep jack > cje@rb:~$ ps -e > jackd_test.txt > cje@rb:~$ > > As you can see, I directed the grep output to a txt file, and I looked > at the txt file, and sure enough, no jackd. So that solution won't seem > to work. > > With regard to the potential solution of choosing the "correct" sound > device, as suggested by the second link above, I went to > > Edit > preferences > Audio I/O > > and found that these are my choices: not sure which are right, and I'm > not sure I want to go messing around with settings until I know what is up: > > ALSA: HDA ATI SB: ALC883 Digital (hw:0,1) > ALSA: default > ALSA: iec958 > ALSA: spdif > ALSA: dmix > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > -- > Christian Einfeldt, > Producer, The Digital Tipping Point > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- **** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
