On Saturday 01 April 2006 08:35 pm, Bart Garst wrote:
> > Anyone out there had to fight with their soundcard to get
> > Audacity working properly?

> Do you have a mixer installed?
> I have to fiddle with my mixer before I can record from the line-in jack.
> Oddly enough, the microphone jack just worked out-of-the-box.
> Bart

It turns out that it wasn't just arming the track. I had actually killed a 
process before doing what I thought was 'arming the track' last time. (I was 
able to get recording to work in Ardour, but had to kill off some process 
like artsd to get Jack to start). I did that, recorded what I needed, and 
then moved on. When I tried to record the next track, I found I had the same 
problem - sound, playback, etc. but no recording.

So, after fiddling with things for a while, I discovered that my problem was 
actually a result of the KDE sound system  taking over and not letting some 
sound card related process go. When I shut that down (system --> 
configuration --> KDE -->  Sound --> Sound System --> disable the entire 
sound system), everything started flowing smoothly.

I guess we'll see, in the future, how KDE responds to having parts of itself 
shut down like that. So far no instability noted.

Thanks to Bart and Christian for their input.
-- 
Jason Hayes