Getting Audacity to work

[Tim M]

On 7/20/07, Richard Innes <unclerichard at clear.net.nz> wrote:
>
> 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.


Richard,

Eureka you got it! This old Gateway motherboard (heaven only knows who made
it) has onboard sound. I disabled it in the BIOS just now . . . now I don't
have any sound LOL. DAMNIT! I didn't install a sound card on this machine.
All this time I thought I had a sound card on this one. So I will need to
buy one to make Auducity work, right? How embarrassing!!!! I have looked
through all my spare parts but no sound card . . . well and old ISA board. I
will have to get a cheap one and maybe Auducity will work. Tim
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