Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] USB Audio Problem with 0.85.1

[Douglas Solomon <dsolomon4552 cfl rr com>]

Andree Leidenfrost wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I am on Debian Woody, kernel 2.4.20, ALSA 0.9.0rc7 and am using a
> Philips ToUCam Pro. Video is working fine, the microphone is not.
>
> I can record from the microphone ok using rec from the sox package. My
> device settings say:
> Player: /dev/dsp0
> Player Mixer: /dev/mixer
> Recorder: /dev/dsp1
> Recorder Mixer: /dev/mixer1
I run a KDE 3.1 desktop in Mandrake 9.0  My sound didn't work, at first. 
It was my bad, though:  The microphone was zeroed in my mixer app!  So, 
do check it.  (Can't get any quicker, cheaper a fix than that! :-)

(It only took me a couple of hours to fall into this fix.  Hope it may 
also help you.)

> The FAQ says under 8.2.2:
>
> If you don't get any error message, but that you don't hear yourself
> with a 5 seconds delay while talking in your microphone, it means that
> you have full-duplex problems. You can test recording with another tool
> called "rec", if recording with this tool works, but that you don't hear
> yourself with the 5 seconds delay using the GnomeMeeting configuration
> druid, it proves the full-duplex problem. If recording with that tool
> doesn't work either, then you have to check your installation again, and
> possibly your cables.
>
> So, using rec works fine but the microphone in gnomemeeting does not.
> Consequently, according to the FAQ, I'm suffering from the full-duplex
> problem. But recorder and player are on different devices. I am at a
> total loss. Maybe I just don't get it...
>
> If someone could point me in the right direction, that would be really,
> really great!
>
> Best regards
> Andree
>  


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