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

[Marc Williams <marcw onlymooo com>]

Ok, here's the latest on the Alsa drivers.

Sine the only way to use the FreshRPMs was to use the latest, 0.9.0rc5,
because they're the only ones that matched my kernel, Damien asked if I
would compile an older version since that wouldn't be kernel version
specific.  Just for the heck of it, and to make sure it wasn't just the
packaging done by Freshrpms, I compiled the latest version, rc5. 
Likewise, the compiled version crashed my system shortly after a
connection was established.

So it was then on to rc3, the version that Damien asked me to compile
from the start.  Bingo.  It works without crashing.  So iguess that
would lead one to believe that there is a compatibility issue between RH
8, rc5, and Gnomemeeting.

So the summary answer for anyone running Red Hat 8 and who wants or
needs to use the Alsa driver - compile the older Alsa 0.9.0rc3.

Now to figure out a few weird things with my new audio...  But at least
it doesn't crash.



On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:30, Marc Williams wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:27, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> No.  It worked great.
> 
> > Did you compile ALSA yourself?
> 
> No.  Used freshRPMs.
> 
> I'm doing a bit of looking elsewhere also.  I'd rather not remove ALSA
> until I give it a fair workout so I'm looking forward to fixing this....
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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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