No audio when recording using Audacity in Fedora 9

[Gerhard Magnus]

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 12:58 -0700, stan wrote:
> 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.
> 
I've been able to get audacity to work without disabling pulseaudio by
installing audacity-nonfree (1.3.4-0.7.20080123cvs.lvn9) instead of
audacity.

Jerry