On 15 Feb, wrote:
In article , Davey
wrote:


If Audacity refuses to even run you may have to look at its config files
or remove and re-install it if you can't find settings to adjust.

Not sure if this will help, but just in case...

You should have something like an .audacity-data directory, inside of which
will be an audacity.cfg file. That is the default Audacity will check when
it is run. In my main machine's copy it includes

[AudioIO]
RecordingDevice=HDA Intel PCH: STAC92xx Analog (hw:0,0)
Host=ALSA
PlaybackDevice=HDA Intel PCH: STAC92xx Analog (hw:0,0)

Which tells Audacity what to try and connect to by default when run. It
then uses these as the default recording and playing devices.

Make a backup copy of the file for safety. Then do an 'aplay -L' and
'arecord -L' to get the details of your soundcard devices. Edit the
audacity.cfg file to point at the sound devices you want have have the host
as ALSA. That *might* cure the problem.

But I can only guess as this isn't a problem I've encountered. And there
may be some other config that is fiddling with this for all I know!

Note you can also change 'hw:' to 'plughw:' as that might bypass an
expected format and allow the system to do a conversion for you at the ALSA
software layer. Might bypass the problem.

Slainte,

Jim

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