Getting Audacity to work

[Richard Innes]

Tim:

Do you have a sound card in addition to on board sound, that is a sound
module on your motherboard?
If so you need to go into your BIOS and disable your motherboard sound
module. This is no big deal.

Go to Wikipedia and search for "sound cards+Linux" there is a whole page
on what sound cards are compatible with Linux.

Richard I

P S I see from a later post you do have ICH4 on board sound. This is a 
fairly old sound chip but should still work happily with ALSA.

The question is; do you have a sound card in addition to this? Is the 
on-board sound chip enabled? If the answer to the first is no then the 
latter becomes important. let's go one step at a time; let us know 
whether you have a PC I Sound Card.