On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:11:17 +0000 (GMT)
Jim Lesurf wrote:

In article , Davey
wrote:


As I mentioned partially above, I looked for jack on my PC, and it
was listed by Synaptic as not installed, in any guise. Yet I did a
'whereis', and found: jack: /usr/lib/jack /usr/lib64/jack And the
terminal tells me that it is not currently installed, just like
Synaptic. From this, I deduce that there are some files loaded, but
they are not in use. Which leaves me still with the question: What
does my Audacity fail message mean?

My *guess* is that Audacity is looking for a device connected with a
wrong pcm format. However its not a problem I've encountered, so I
can't predict how to cure it.

Can you play files with aplay and record them with arecord? If so,
your sound system is basically setup OK and the problem is some
assumptions that Audacity is making. 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.

aplay works fine, I just checked. Not tried arecord (ever).
All that happens is that I get the message I showed.

--
Davey.