I’m more of the type “if it ain’t broke don’t change it” type.
But if you want improvements in your software, you gotta follow an upgrade path.
And many times version upgrades are only available at newer versions of the kernel.
So with some time off work I had plenty of time to fix they typical linux disasters (like dropping support for video cards, etc)
I’m running Mint 17 x64 so now I can run version 2.0.5 of Audacity.
Previously I had very intermittent freezing issues in Audacity running the embedded sounds on the MB. The fix was upgrading to a Asus Xonar DG sound card and turning the embedded sound OFF in the bios. That was several months back and the card upgrade eliminated the freezing issue 100%.
As long as I had Xonar multichannel selected in the hardware in Audacity, it was rock solid.
So here I go; upgraded to new distro, running 2.0.5 finally and I can’t get the Xonar card to show up in the Audacity hardware list.
It is enable and tested in the OS sound options and it works on built in sound, and other playback. It is selected as primary. But it won’t show up in Audacity, but all the settings for the DISABLED embedded sound shows up. How frustrating!
Any ideas guys??
HERE IT IS:
The HDA ATI SB: ALC888 device is the embedded audio which is turned off in the bios.
It very well may be the working audio (card) is showing up as system default. But in the previous install of linux (and 2.0.3) selecting this didn’t provide 100% solid reliability.
The Xonar card showed up as a device and selecting that always gave 100% reliability.
Work on a 1 hr program last night and Audacity crashed at least 5 times. It is the typical issues of ALSA handling the hardware instead of Audacity pointing directly to it.
The only way I can get audio out is to set the hardware to default. Have to figure out a solution here.
I presume that you have tried trawling through the Linux Mint forums, (in particular their “hardware support” board http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=49). There are several threads there about the Asus Xonar DG sound card.
Hey Steve,
The thing is it -works- under Mint 17. In the audio properties you can select the Xonar device and test the sound, works fine.
The problem is I can’t get audicity to assign it to hardware address. All it gets assigned to is default.
But it gives hardware support to the embedded audio of the AMD MB chipset; this is turned off in the bios.
Audacity just probes the system to see what devices are available, then offers those choices in the device toolbar. The only available device that it can find is the ALC888.
Do you have PulseAudio volume control installed? If not, install it (the package is called “pavucontrol”).
When installed, open it and go to the “Configuration” tab. The devices that are available on your system will be listed there. What options are shown? (you could post screen shots).