Audacity useless gotten from synaptic

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:38:07 +0200
Giorgos <pinkisntwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I installed audacity from Synaptic and it won't work. It says there's an
> error with the audio and won't record or playback. If I go into
> preferences it won't let me configure the audio.

Try turning off system sounds

System - Preferences - Sound

uncheck/ untick  "Sounds for Events"

Audacity wants exclusive access to /dev/dsp and doesn't understand esd, it
seems. You will also get the error if anything else is using sound ( music
players etc )

Peter

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