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by ludist
Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:49 pm
Forum: GNU/Linux
Topic: Audacity doesn't open on Samsung Chromebook running Ubuntu
Replies: 6
Views: 16328

Re: Audacity doesn't open on Samsung Chromebook running Ubun

This guy seems to have gotten it to work with no problems. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/chromebook-central/99glmCbTqIY Hmm. I'm not really sure what I should be activating in ALSA mixer and I'm a bit hesitant to mess about with it given the warnings elsewhere about frying spea...
by ludist
Wed Apr 10, 2013 5:11 pm
Forum: GNU/Linux
Topic: Audacity doesn't open on Samsung Chromebook running Ubuntu
Replies: 6
Views: 16328

Re: Audacity doesn't open on Samsung Chromebook running Ubun

Yes, I think I might be the first/only human being to attempt this feat. (I've seen elsewhere that others have gotten Audacity working on chrubuntu, but I'm not sure if they had ARM processors or not). Thanks a bunch for the reply! I'm going to activate a playback device and see if I can't get Audac...
by ludist
Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:33 am
Forum: GNU/Linux
Topic: Audacity doesn't open on Samsung Chromebook running Ubuntu
Replies: 6
Views: 16328

Re: Audacity doesn't open on Samsung Chromebook running Ubun

Please let me know if I need to provide any other info.

Notably, when I'm not using the emulation and go directly to the terminal via ctrl+alt+F1, I get a different error

Failed to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?
by ludist
Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:56 am
Forum: GNU/Linux
Topic: Audacity doesn't open on Samsung Chromebook running Ubuntu
Replies: 6
Views: 16328

Audacity doesn't open on Samsung Chromebook running Ubuntu

Hello everyone-- here's my dream, simply enough: I want to use my Samsung Chromebook (which doesn't have any moving parts) to record audio. Starting out with a weird processor (ARM) and a non-standard operating system, this was a fairly complicated task. Here's where I'm at so far: 1.) I installed C...