audacity I/O error

crimsun at fungus.sh.nu crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
Sat Oct 29 21:22:00 UTC 2005


On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 11:01:57AM -0400, stan wrote:
> On the latest Ubuntu, when I start audacity (from the menus), I get a pop
> up warning that the audio I/O layer did not initalize, and I wont be able
> to play sounds. But sound is working fine on this machine.

Please ensure that no sound application is in use when you start
Audacity, as it attempts to grab /dev/dsp immediately, which requires
exclusive access.

Cheers,
-- 
Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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