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

[Truong <tphuong wol be>]

% *** John Francis Lee <jfl robinlea com> wrote: ***
% Dear gnomemeeting,
% 
% Greetings. I'm very excited about PC-Phone telephony!
% 

Greetings,

% 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 $
% 

It seems to be right for the quicknet driver. Just to be sure, could you
give the output of the command 'cat /proc/ixj'. 

% 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.

You said you have GnomeMeeting v0.96. Since v0.96 GM can detect
automatically with Druid menu. So be sure you run Gnomemeeting from an X
session.

I don't how rpm's based system controls the dependency but here is what
I get from Debian (thanks to the maintainer):

user:$ apt-cache depends gnomemeeting

gnomemeeting
  Depends: bonobo-activation
  Depends: libart-2.0-2
  Depends: libatk1.0-0
  Depends: libaudiofile0
  Depends: libbonobo-activation4
  Depends: libbonobo2-0
  Depends: libbonoboui2-0
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libdb3
 |Depends: libesd0
  Depends: libesd-alsa0
  Depends: libgconf2-4
  Depends: libgcrypt1
  Depends: libgcrypt1
  Depends: libglib2.0-0
  Depends: libgnome2-0
  Depends: libgnomecanvas2-0
  Depends: libgnomeui-0
  Depends: libgnomevfs2-0
  Depends: libgnutls5
  Depends: libgtk2.0-0
  Depends: libldap2
  Depends: liblinc1
  Depends: libopenh323-1.9.10
  Depends: liborbit2
  Depends: libpam0g
  Depends: libpango1.0-0
  Depends: libpopt0
  Depends: libpt-1.3.11
  Depends: libsasl7
  Depends: libsdl1.2debian
  Depends: libspeex
  Depends: libssl0.9.6
  Depends: libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
  Depends: libtasn1-0
  Depends: libxml2
  Depends: xlibs
  Depends: zlib1g
  Replaces: <gnomemeeting2>


As you can see, there is a lots of packages need to be installed.

Espcially, please check if the libraries below are also installed:

  - libxml
  - libopenh323
  - libpt

Could you start a normal X session with Gnome ?


% 
% 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.

I don't know if the time delay in voice conversation (between 150 and
350 ms) is still repected in a VNC session.

If your workstation is a Linux system (or FreeBSD alike), it could be
simple to use GM on this machine and let your gateway does its job
properly: routing/forwarding.

% 
% 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?


Please check if the library libxml is installed.


% 
% 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.
% 

Did you mean Gnome couldn't start ?



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  Truong <tphuong wol be>