Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] GM 0.96 complains about audio devices and doesn't start

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeu 20/02/2003 à 11:01, Fesselet Nicolas a écrit :
> Thanks for this quick answer. I modprobed snd-pcm-oss and snd-seq-oss 
> which loaded a few dependencies (lsmod lists them now but there they 
> have a "unused" state). I still get the same message. I don't have any 
> clear understanding of how all those oss or alsa modules work, could you 
> help me on this (or redirect me on some good source of information) ?
> 

The best documentation for debugging problems is the GnomeMeeting FAQ.
If GnomeMeeting displays that error message, it is because it can't find
the device. Have you tried as root with snd-pcm-oss loaded? It should
work in that case.


> Damien Sandras wrote:
> 
> >Your modules do not list snd-pcm-oss. It means that your soundcard will
> >only work with programs having pure ALSA output. Your should load
> >snd-pcm-oss for OSS compatibility. 
> >
> >OSS is still the standard in current kernels.
> >
> >Le jeu 20/02/2003 à 10:29, Nicolas FESSELET a écrit :
> >  
> >
> >>  I tried to compile and install GnomeMeeting 0.96 and everything seemed 
> >>to work right. When I launched the application, the error message 
> >>"GnomeMeeting can't be used without audio devices. Please install a 
> >>soundcard ..." appeared and nothing else happened. I have a soundcard 
> >>though and it is working too. I have alsa 0.9.0rc5 and all the modules 
> >>are loaded when I run GnomeMeeting.
> >>lsmod says :
> >>snd-mixer-oss          10816   1 (autoclean)
> >>snd-ymfpci             41792   1 (autoclean)
> >>snd-pcm                56384   0 (autoclean) [snd-ymfpci]
> >>snd-mpu401-uart         2720   0 (autoclean) [snd-ymfpci]
> >>snd-rawmidi            12704   0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart]
> >>snd-opl3-lib            5376   0 (autoclean) [snd-ymfpci]
> >>snd-hwdep               3712   0 (autoclean) [snd-opl3-lib]
> >>snd-seq-device          3920   0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi snd-opl3-lib]
> >>snd-timer              10656   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib]
> >>snd-ac97-codec         25264   0 (autoclean) [snd-ymfpci]
> >>snd                    24648   0 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss snd-ymfpci 
> >>snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep 
> >>snd-seq-device snd-timer snd-ac97-codec]
> >>NVdriver              945472  10 (autoclean)
> >>
> >>I tried to modify the file permissions on /dev/dsp0 and /dev/mixer0 and 
> >>even to run GM as root but it didn't change anything.
> >>
> >>Do you have an idea of what is going on and if there is a way of solving 
> >>this ?
> >>Thanks in advance
> >>
> >>
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