No audio when recording using Audacity in Fedora 9

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Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I'm using audacity with jack under F9 to record audio coming in through
> my computer's line input.  Everything seems to work OK, except that no
> signal appears in the input VU meter or in the displayed waveform.  The
> recording is silent.  A little web searching turned up this snippet:
> 
>         Audacity doesn't support PulseAudio, nor Esound for the moment.
>         You'll have to kill or suspend pulseaudio before you use this
>         application. Audacity uses the PortAudio cross-platform Audio
>         API which doesnt support pulseaudio. Some work was started on
>         making portaudio support PulseAudio but this does not appear to
>         be under active development currently and does not work in it's
>         current state. 
> 
> In F8 under KDE, I was able to stop the aRts sound server, and record
> successfully.  F9 with Gnome appears to use both PulseAudio and EsounD.
> It's easy to stop PulseAudio, using something like:
>         pasuspender -- audacity <argument>
> but there doesn't seem to be any way to stop EsounD.
> 
> Has anyone used audacity successfully with jack?  Or any other way?
> 
> 
Yes, I use audacity on Fedora 9.  I do not use pulse at all, though it 
is installed and disabled (not temporarily suspended).  I am not using 
jack, though that probably isn't your issue.  I am using the audacity 
1.3.6 beta, and I compiled and installed it from the tarball.  I have 
used the line in successfully to record.  It was necessary to select 
it as the mic is usually the default.  alsamixer  then F4, and select 
the recording source.

As far as I know the way to turn off the esound server is   esdctl off 
   .  I think esound is just an alias for pulse at this point.  I seem 
to recall tracing this down and finding that.  So suspending pulse 
should suspend esound.