Audacity won't work so I'm looking for record software

by PP » Thu, 30 Jan 2003 06:59:30

Hello.

I have recently installed a Mandrake 9.0, and Audacity won't work : it
says it has an Audio IO error, and it won't detect even /dev/dsp, and
I can't select any input / output device. I'm using KDE with aRts,
XMMS and Real Player run just fine. Would anyone have an idea ? I
looked through Google groups but nothing helped...
Wuold anyone have an advice for recording software in this
configuration ? I've been on freshmeat, and those I tried either
didn't compile, or recorded blank (soundgrab's rawrec utility seemed
to save nothing but blank).

Thanks.
P.

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