Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] sound card detection

[Chris Ruvolo <chris+gnomemeeting ruvolo net>]

> > I believe you have to set OSS. Hardware set up in the kernel is not the
> > same as the sound driver.
> 
> odd... I never knew that.  I just figured since it worked, that I
> must have done it right... well, I guess it is time to
> recompile... or maybe I should try ALSA

That is not correct.  If your sound is working in other applications, it
should work in Gnomemeeting.  If you are using a 2.4 kernel sound driver,
you are using an OSS interface.  Hardware selection is the same as the sound
driver (at least for 2.4.. I don't know how alsa got implemented in 2.5).

Make sure you kill all instances of esd.  Some gnome apps start one up if
its not already running.

The details about sound drivers.. OSS was a non-free collection of sound
drivers for Linux.  They also had a free GPLed set of drivers called
OSS/Lite.  Descendants of those original drivers are in the 2.4 kernel.  In
addition, people have contributed other drivers that follow the same
interface but are not from OSS.

So, when in the kernel config, you select "OSS sound modules" you are
selecting the descendants of the OSS/Lite release.  When you are selecting a
driver outside of that subtree, you will be using a driver that conforms to
the same interface.  2.4 included drivers use the OSS interface.

ALSA provides a different interface.  They also provide a backwards
compatible OSS interface.

Hope this clarifies things.

-Chris