no input selector

[LanceHaverkamp]

Hello,

Using Mandriva 2008.1 which comes with Audacity 1.3.4. My sound devices (tried 2 different ones) display on the device toolbar, but there is never an input selector. OSS:/dev/dsp records silence, whereas any ALSA setting returns: "Error while opening sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project sample rate." I have disabled pulseaudio. Tried both ALSA & OSS.

Otherwise either soundcard (AC97 on motherboard OR an old, cheap CreativeLabs card) seem to work fine, I can hear a radio plugged into line-in

I've had no trouble with older versions of Audacity in Debian on this same hardware.

Any ideas?

THanks,

Lance

[steve]

but there is never an input selector.

You mean in the "Device Toolbar? That's not unusual - I had the same issue with Audacity 1.3.4 in Xubuntu, but selecting the device in "Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O" worked.

Also worth noting that I am finding Audacity 1.3.5 to be a lot more stable on my Linux machine than 1.3.4 was.

Just a thought - it may be worth disabling the on-board sound card in BIOS (or look for a jumper on the motherboard), and just using the SB card.

[LanceHaverkamp]

Yes, I think you call it the device toolbar, but having no input selector makes 1.3.4 totally unusable (at least here). I can either record complete silence on /dev/dsp or not record anything whatsoever under ALSA. Using ALSA all I get is the earlier mentioned error message. I have downgraded to stable, which is not part of Mandriva 2008.1; that fixes the problem. I will look and see if there is a 1.3.5 Mandriva RPM here at the audacity site--Mandriva only distributes 1.3.4 so far.

Thanks,

Lance