Re: SUSE 10.0: Audacity.

AnonymousFC4 wrote:
> Hi:
> I have installed Audacity (manually, the rpmbone rpm, as stated a few days
> ago.
>
> Audacity seems to be a touchy application: if I start it before some sound
> I/O (say streaming), it starts OK, but ... I cannot hear annything.
> If I start the application first (usually Realplayer), then Audacity, I get
> a I/O error message.
>
> In the past I could use (On Fedora 1, 2, 3 and 4) after some trials and
> errors hacking...
>
> My system is using an ASUS (A7N8X) motherboard, with NVIDIA chipset for the
> sound: works very well.
>
> Any idea, on how to use Audacity successfully on SUSE Linux 10.0.
> Should I reinstall it? (I will probably try this anyway).
> ---
> Also the sound mixed (NVDIA) is quite cumbersome, and doing better (from the
> user standpoint) would not be too bad.
>
> AFC4
>
> ====
> OPINION:
> 1) It seems that the Linux sound system is complex, and integration of sound
> applications are still not quite satisfactory (this is not SUSE specific),
> and for example SKYPE so far is not "fully fonctional" on SUSE 10.0... and
> just a bit better on Fedora when it works perfectly on Windows XP
> professional.
>
> I ignore what is the problem, but suspect that the Linux sound system, is
> either poorly documented (too much contradictory information) or poorly
> understood.
>
> Of course it would be nice if all the sound applications would work on SUSE
> Linux 10.0, as easily and well, as on the most popular proprietary OS.
>
> For Linux to win "the desktop of the "non hacker" at home" will take some
> more efforts, but every new upgrade is better, so I am confident.
> I have not recently tried other distros than FC4 and SUSE 10, are they any
> better in this very specific area.
> Mandriva seems to have good reviews on multimedia.
>
> 2) Proprietary software required to have Linux Multimedia functional:
> This applies mostly to drivers, MP3 codesc, etc...
> I am wondering if the "vendors" could not include a clause to authorize the
> free distribution of these pieces of software as part of any Linux (or
> other GPL based software) distros, in order to allow their free
> re-distribution with Linux distributions?
>
> Why would the free (as beer, not open) Acrobat Reader, or NVIDIA video
> driver could not include the authorization to include them with any new
> Linux (and other open source OS'es)?
>
> It would not change any thing: they are already available for free download
> online? But it would level the playing field with proprietary OS'es.
> ====
>

If you are running the latest version of Audacity 1.3, this is a beta
version. I had a lot of troubles with this version.
One of the main trouble was little bit of sound with no amplifying.
If have reinstalled version 1.2.x and my problems were gone.
.

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