Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] re: snd-via82xx full-duplex

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mar 04/11/2003 à 17:11, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> at the moment of testing, nothing is using the /dev/dsp or /dev/sound/dsp, but 

Have you checked with lsof?

> I can tell you that I have have lots of programs using /dev/dsp and they all 
> work fine (at least for sound output) (for example, I have a game running, 
> and GAIM and xine and they all use it together, with no problems at all), but 

You named it, all those programs are only using output and never
input/output, so being full-duplex or not is not a problem.

> at the moment of testing, I turned them all off, so that nothing was using 
> /dev/dsp.

> is that it? you mean that I can't have a working microphone in linux? at all?
> 
> that just sucks...
> 

Buy a decent soundcard after having checked yours is not full-duplex.
However I doubt your soundcard is not full-duplex, you most probably
have misconfigured your ALSA installation.


> Op dinsdag 4 november 2003 16:59, schreef Damien Sandras:
> > Le mar 04/11/2003 à 16:44, Alien999999999 a écrit :
> > > again, my question, how do i check if it is full-duplex? and how do I
> > > turn that on?
> >
> > With the druid. Also do an lsof /dev/dsp to see if no other software is
> > using the device, causing the failure.
> >
> > There is no way to turn full-duplex on / off.
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