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

[Damien Sandras <damien sandras it-optics com>]

Le mer 05/11/2003 à 12:53, Alien999999999 a écrit :
> and how can I correct the alsa install? (the install is rather automatic in 
> Mandrake, I don't really have anything to say.
> 

I think that is something you should ask in specialized ALSA or Mandrake
forums. We are not experts in that here.



> I tried alsaconf, but that gave some errors about whiptail & erorr not being 
> present.
> 
> is there something I have to add to the /etc/modules.conf ?
> 
> thanks for the help so far...
> 
> 
> Op dinsdag 4 november 2003 17:20, schreef Damien Sandras:
> > 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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