No sound in Audacity, but got sound everywhere else

[Jonas Norlander]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Charles Kanavle <charles at litek.com> wrote:
> My Dell E1705 runs Kubuntu 8.04 just fine... until I try to edit
> sound with Audacity. I come over from Adobe Audition, but have to
> keep returning to it because when I try to play the timeline on an
> audio track Audacity, I get the travelling cursor and visual
> indication of play mode, but no actual sound in the speaker. Other
> programs produce sound just fine during the same session.
> Has any one else had a similar probrem?
> Thanks all...
> Charles
>

Is the sound settings in Audacity right for your hardware? ALSA
Default is probably the best choice for playback.

/ Jonas