Audacity playback: No sound

[guido dom]

I have a similar problem with my Medion MD 96640 (ALC883 sound chip). The
sound is very low (except on extrenal speakers).
On 7.10 all is normal.

2008/7/29 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>

> Ubuntu 8.04
>
> Audacity (R) 1.3.4-beta (Unicode)
>
> Packard Bell Easy Note laptop: 1,6 GHz (dual core), 2 GB.
>
> Procedure:
>
> Open File (doesn't matter which one, as long as it is a supported file
> format)
>
> Click Play
>
> Project plays but no sound can be heard. The output level meters however,
> move as they should.
>
> Ctrl+p
>
> Nothing happens for about 15-20 seconds (very frustrating)
>
> A dialogue window appears.
>
> Playback device is set to ALSA: HDA Intel: AD198x Digital (hw: 0,1)
>
> Change it to ALSA: HDA Intel: AD198x Analog(hw: 0,0)
>
> Nothing happens for about 30 seconds (extremely frustrating)
>
> Klick Play
>
> Nothing happens for about 8 seconds (not acceptable but not very
> frustrating either)
>
> An error box appears: "Error while opening sound device. Please check the
> output device settings and the project sample rate."
>
> The thing about the sample rate just has to be nonsense, because I never
> use anything else than 44.1 kHz. Whereever I look, it is set to 44.1 kHz and
> all my sound files are 44.1 kHz files.
>
> I guess Pulse Audio is involved somehow, but I don't really understand what
> it's for and what to do with it. All I want to do is to edit some sound
> files and hear the result, which I could easily with Audacity on Ubuntu 7.04
> and 7.10 on the very same laptop.
>
> Any hints about next step in the troubleshooting procedure?
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
>
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Guido (dompie) Dom
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