Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Bad echo using gnomemeeting

[Klaas Prause <klaas prause gmx de>]

Hi,

normally only the microphone is too near to the speakers causing the 
echo. Try to use headsets and you should be fine.

Klaas



mark h aldous L-3com com wrote:
> I am getting bad echoing using gnomemeeting.  I have connected two laptops
> running gnomemeeting on the same subnet.  Unless I control the audio
> parameters very carefully, the audio starts echoing repeatedly.  Sometimes
> the echoing goes on forever, getting louder with each echo.
>
> I am using gnomemeeting with Redhat 9.0 and the ALSA audio driver.  I am
> controlling the audio parameters using the standard Redhat linux Volume
> Control utility in the Sound and Video menu.  I set volume and mike to about
> 80%.  Neither of those settings seems critical.  If I set pcm and igain to
> about 33%, then the echoing is not noticable and I can still hear the audio.
> If either pcm or igain is greater than about 33%, then I get echoing.  If
> either is greater than about 50%, then I get infinite echoing.  If either is
> less than about 30%, then I can't hear the audio.
>
> I have tried connecting the two laptops directly to each other using a
> cross-over ethernet cable, but it doesn't make any difference.  It also
> doesn't help to disable the video.
>
> I'm sure that this isn't normal, because I haven't found much discussion
> about gnomemeeting echoing on the internet.  Does anyone know what might be
> causing my problem?
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