Problems with audacity

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gaffer · Post by **gaffer** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:17 am

I want to use audacity for recording sound from the microphone. I tried to install versions 1.2.X. None of the was emerging. They complained onto wxProtoFile function absense in vtable in wxGTK-2.4.2. I searched thru the internet and didn't find how to install audacity. However audacity-1.2.1 is marked as stable. Which is really weird because I installed wxGTK-2.4.2-r4 which is also stable. I installed it with USE="-debug -gtk2 -odbc +opengl -unicode +wxgtk1"

Since I couldn't install audacity-1.2.1, which is marked stabel,though, I decided to try to install audacity-1.3.0_beta. It emerged but doesn't work properly. After start it as aoss audacity,it outputs next lines:

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Pa_SetLatency: could not SNDCTL_DSP_SETFRAGMENT
Pa_SetLatency: numBuffers = 5, framesPerBuffer = 2048, powerOfTwo = 13
Pa_SetupDeviceFormat: could not SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT

When I am trying to record suond from the mictrophone cursor blinks at the beginning af the line and doesn't go forward. Also when I push stop button, wudacity just hangs and stays in this state forever.

I guess that the problem is that it works through OSS and I have ALSA installed on my machine. However, aoss realplay and aoss firefox work fine. And I didn't have problem with microphone since I can use GNOME default recorder application.

I have even installed windows version (which is in fact works fine on windows machine) on the wine-0.9.8. It doesn't work.

So the question is does anybody use ANY version of audacity ? How did you install it on the your box ?

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:48 am

The following thread may help you
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-41 ... intra.html

I am using audacity version

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media-sound/audacity-1.2.4b-r1
with
x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r4

and my use flags

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USE="a52 aac aalib asf audiofile bzip2 cddb cdparanoia css curl directfb dts
     dvd dvdr dvdread esd exif faad ffmpeg flac hddtemp idn imagemagick java
     javascript junit lcms ldap libcaca live lm_sensors matroska mmx mng nas
     network nptl ppds real rtc slang sse sse2 svga tcltk theora tiff unicode
     usb win32codecs wxgtk1 xine xvid -avi -fortran -gnome -gtk"

Btw, I also get the following when trying

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 #  aoss audacity
Pa_SetLatency: could not SNDCTL_DSP_SETFRAGMENT
Pa_SetLatency: numBuffers = 2, framesPerBuffer = 512, powerOfTwo = 11
Pa_SetupDeviceFormat: could not SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT
PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_RDONLY
PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_RDONLY
PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000

gaffer · Post by **gaffer** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:50 am

What is your ~/.asoundrc ?

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:40 am

gaffer wrote:What is your ~/.asoundrc ?

I don't have one..

richardash1981 · Post by **richardash1981** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:35 pm

as far as wxProtoFile goes, the key thing is to re-emerge wxGTK-2.4, as it's been built against an older GTK+ version, and the GTK+ upgrade has broken wxGTK.