Help with Audacity on Kubuntu 8.04

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 15:37 -0700, Rick Knight wrote:
> Jonas Norlander wrote:
> > 2008/9/19 Rick Knight <rick_knight at rlknight.com>:
> >   
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to record some vinyl using Audacity and having no success. I
> >> have an Audio Technica USB turntable with line out. I have the line out
> >> connected to the line in on my sound card. I can play the vinyl through
> >> my PC speakers but I cannot get Audacity to record it. In Kmix I have
> >> the record input set to line1 and line1 is not muted. In audacity I have
> >> the record source set to OSS:/dev/dsp, same setting for playback device.
> >>     
> >
> > Are you sure you need to use OSS? Should you not select your ALSA input?
> >
> > / Jonas
> >
> >   
> No, I'm not sure I need OSS. I tried the ALSA devices but they didn't 
> work either and they gave me an error that OSS didn't give me (Error 
> while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and 
> the project sample rate.). Now that I have Audacity working with OSS 
> I've gone back and tried the ALSA drivers and they still don't work and 
> still give the same error message. Is there a trick to setting up 
> Audacity with ALSA on Kubuntu?

Did you get the message "device /dev/snd missing"?  Ric

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