On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 19:08 -0500, Peter Gordon wrote: > Daniel Anderson said: > > Hi, > > I,m having a problem with audacity can't access audio layer. Any ideas? > > audacity-1.2.3-5.lvn.1.4 > > kernel 2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 > > ALSA, in recent versions, does software-mixing > automatically (similar to other operating systems such as Microsoft's > Windows). However, wxWidgets (which Audacity uses) still uses OSS/Free > instead of ALSA for its sound layer. > > Thus, unless your sound card can do hardware mixing, you'll need to make > sure that nothing else is using the sound device (EsounD perhaps?). > > Hope that helps. > Are the OSS drivers availabe with Fedora? That's what I was using with Mandrake on the same hardware and everything worked ok. I don't want to shut down artsd because of other programs using it. Thanks, Dan
