Audacity, F9, and sound systems

[Tim]

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 20:35 -0400, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> When I fire up audacity, it offers a number of choices for the input
> sound and playback sound. Most of those choices seem to revolve around
> ALSA. The only ones that seem to work are OSS. OK, I'll use what
> works. However, once I have run audacity once and exited, the next
> time I get into it, there are only ALSA choices available for
> playback. OSS is no longer available in the drop down and none of the
> ALSA choices give me sound.

Just to let you know that you're not alone, I have occasionally
experienced the same thing, though it usually works fine.  I've not used
Audacity often enough, to capture sound, to work out a pattern to it.

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter

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