[GnomeMeeting-list] 'Please install a sound card or Quicknet card'

[John Francis Lee <jfl robinlea com>]

Dear gnomemeeting,

Greetings. I'm very excited about PC-Phone telephony!

I just installed my new quicknet pci card in the machine I'd like to us
for internet telephony.

The card was recognized during the boot sequence (2.4.20 kernel):
 Linux telephony interface: v1.00
 ixj: found Internet PhoneJACK PCI at 0xe800
 $Id: ixj.c,v 4.7 2001/08/13 06:19:33 craigs Exp $

but when I try to start Gnomemeeting I get
 GnomeMeeting can't be used without audio devices.
 Please install a sound card or a Quicknet card.

I have just installed X on the machine in question.

It is the gateway machine on our lan, and the only one that may get a
public ip address. 

Previously it did not have X installed. 

I would like to run GnomeMeeting/PC-Phone on this machine from an
ordinary workstation using vnc.

Vncserver runs on this gw machine, and my workstation can open a vnc
session on the gw, but the session is 'bare bones' X: a single xterm
against a rough-textured backgound.

I figured I needed to install more X/gnome packages, so I did:
 [root gw root]# rpm -qa | grep X
 XFree86-xauth-4.2.0-72
 XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.2.0-72
 XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.2.0-72
 XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-72
 Xft-2.0-1
 XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.2.0-72
 XFree86-devel-4.2.0-72
 XFree86-libs-4.2.0-72
 XFree86-font-utils-4.2.0-72
 XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-72
 XFree86-4.2.0-72

and
 [root gw root]# rpm -qa | grep gnome
 gnome-mime-data-2.0.0-9
 gnome-print-0.35-8
 libgnome-2.0.2-5
 libgnomeui-2.0.3-3
 gnome-session-2.0.5-7
 libgail-gnome-1.0.0-3
 gnome-terminal-2.0.1-5
 gnome-python2-1.99.11-8
 gnome-vfs2-extras-0.99.5-1
 gnome-panel-2.0.6-9
 libgnomeprint-1.116.0-2
 gnome-audio-extra-1.4.0-4
 gnome-spell-0.4.1-4
 gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-22
 libgnomeprint15-0.35-8
 libgnomecanvas-2.0.2-1
 gnome-vfs2-2.0.2-5
 gnomemeeting-0.96.0-2
 gnome-desktop-2.0.6-4
 gnome-media-2.0.0-9
 gnome-python2-bonobo-1.99.11-8
 openssh-askpass-gnome-3.4p1-2
 gnome-vfs-1.0.5-6
 gnome-utils-2.0.2-5
 gnome-audio-1.4.0-4
 gnome-python2-canvas-1.99.11-8 
 up2date-gnome-3.0.7-1
 gnome-applets-2.0.1-6
 gdk-pixbuf-gnome-0.18.0-4

So much for my clean gw machine :) 

Apparently I still have not installed enough X/gnome software, because
nothing has changed.

I tried to make the machine start gnome on X:0, but
 Feb  9 09:49:11 gw gconfd (jfl-802): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 802
   user 'jfl'
 Feb  9 09:49:11 gw gconfd (jfl-802): Resolved address
   "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config
   source at position 0
 Feb  9 09:49:11 gw gconfd (jfl-802): Resolved address
  "xml:readwrite:/home/jfl/.gconf" to a writable config source at
  position 1
 Feb  9 09:49:11 gw gconfd (jfl-802): Resolved address
  "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config
  source at position 2
 Feb  9 09:49:12 gw gdm[798]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error
  - Restarting :0
 Feb  9 09:49:13 gw gdm[803]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error
  - Restarting :0
 Feb  9 09:49:17 gw gdm[807]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error
  - Restarting :0
 Feb  9 09:49:21 gw gdm[840]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error
  - Restarting :0
 Feb  9 09:49:21 gw gdm[753]: deal_with_x_crashes: Running the
  XKeepsCrashing script
 Feb  9 09:49:32 gw gdm[753]: Failed to start X server several times in
  a short time period; disabling display :0

Perhaps the "xml:readonly..." messages are signaling the problem?

The /etc/gconf directory structure is opened by root.root and is pretty
much 755 all the way down. Same as on my 'ordinary' workstation.

This machine is running RedHat-8.0. 

I've installed their redhat-config-xfree86, but it won't run either.

I'm sure I just need to do something elementary.
Can anyone please tell me what that is?

Thanks for all your help.

-- 
John Francis Lee <jfl robinlea com>