Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Help!! - ALSA crashes my Gnomemeeting

[m-redlich t-online de (Matthias Redlich)]

Am Mit, 2002-11-06 um 17.27 schrieb Damien Sandras:
> You are not the only one to mention kernel crashes using GnomeMeeting
> under Redhat 8.0.
> System crashing means a driver bug. As me, and many other people who are
> using ALSA have no problem, it would indicate a Redhat 8.00 bug.
> Did you have system crashing when using GnomeMeeting before using ALSA?
> Did you compile ALSA yourself?
> 

I think so , too. There were some people who reported problems using
RedHat 8.0 and GnomeMeeting. Their system crashed and they (told that
they) had to reboot - I couldn't ever test it here. I neither use RedHat
nor I've got some CDs available here. But I think it is an interesting
issue. 
GnomeMeeting can't crash the whole system thus I suppose there is a
driver (kernel) conflict.
Maybe RedHat uses some different (strange?) parameters during
bootstrapping when the drivers are loaded. Maybe you just have to tell
your system some additional parameters (lilo and append="xxx"), I don't
know, but it should be interesting to test.
The only reason for my guesswork is the fact that only RedHat users
reported this problem.

Cheers,
Matthias

> 
> 
> Le mer 06/11/2002 à 17:18, Marc Williams a écrit :
> > Being the compulsive tinkerer that can't leave well enough alone, I
> > decided to install ALSA on my RH 8.0 system.  Why?  I have no idea other
> > than a lot of people say very positive things about ALSA.  I followed
> > the directions on the freshrpms and ALSA sites to install.  Set a few
> > things in alsamixer and voila!  Everything seemed to work.
> > 
> > Until I fired up Gnomemeeting.  A few seconds after connecting with
> > anyone (I've tried two different people) my system locks up tighter than
> > a (pick your metaphore).  Mouse is frozen, no keyboard, yadda yadda. 
> > Requires a hard boot.  Thank goodness for ext3, eh?
> > 
> > All my other apps that I've tried so far seem to work well.  At least
> > those that deliver audio.  I don't have any other apps that use the mic.
> > 
> > So even though I'm fairly certain that this is not a Gnomemeeting issue
> > since it seems that a lot of people use ALSA with Gnomemeeting, I
> > thought I'd ask here for help.  After all, people here are nice and
> > besides, I'm not subscribed to an ALSA list.  :)
> > 
> > Not sure what info is needed to track this down.  Here's my modules.conf
> > (I'm sure it will wrap horribly):
> > 
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > alias eth0 eepro100
> > # alias sound-slot-0 es1371
> > # post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
> > >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > # pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
> > >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > post-install snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > pre-remove snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > alias char-major-81 bttv
> > # ALSA portion
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
> > # module options should go here
> > # OSS/Free portion
> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> > # card #1
> > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> > 
> > I really appreciate any pointers you can give to get this thing fixed so
> > that I don't have to back out the ALSA stuff.  In case it's not obvious
> > from the modules.conf file, my card is an Ensoniq ES1371.  CPU is a AMD
> > k6-2 400.  I used the RPMs available on the freshrpms site.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
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