[GnomeMeeting-list] Re: works with OSS drivers on Debian 2.4.21 kernel but not Knoppix 2.4.22

[brown cow <djlarue yahoo com>]

> Subject: Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] works with OSS
> drivers on Debian 2.4.21
> 	kernel but not Knoppix 2.4.22
> From: Kilian Krause <kk verfaction de>
> To: gnomemeeting-list gnome org
> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 19:41:22 +0200
> Reply-To: gnomemeeting-list gnome org
> 
> 
> Hi brown cow (gee, when will users finally learn how
> to put a signature?),

Hi, I know how, just don't feel like it. BTW, I've
been a yahoo.com member since 1997, publicly online
since 1994, and a software developer since 1990. ;-)

> 
> Am Sa, den 03.04.2004 schrieb brown cow um 19:23:
> > I've got the latest Knoppix( v3.3 ) that won't run
> > GnomeMeeting with the default OSS drivers and the
> ALSA
> > drivers don't work at all(no sounds). What is
> strange
> > is that a while ago, I installed Debian(Knoppix
> v3.0)
> > on a workstation and GnomeMeeting works just fine
> and
> > it's running the default OSS drivers.
> 
> KNOPPIX needs a special boot-flag to load ALSA
drivers. If you load them
> by hand, please keep in mind ALSA starts with all
mixers muted. So you
> need to run some alsamixer to get more volume.
Moreover GM 0.98.5 (which
> might be the version in Knoppix 3.3) needs a full
duplex OSS driver or
> ALSA's OSS emulation. Only the GnomeMeeting 1.0.x is
capable of native
> ALSA.
> 

The "full duplex" requirement is probably it. The i810
audio device( or drivers ) doesn't seem to support
full duplex. Also, starting Knoppix with the "alsa"
cheat-code doesn't result in the alsa module getting
loaded and nothing ALSA works( alsa_init, alsamixer,
or alsa_snddevices ). Kernel msg output shows an
AD1881 device and neither alsa=snd_intel8x0 or
alsa=ad1889 did anything that remotely looks like alsa
is getting loaded. How is one to know anyways? Does
the alsa module show up in lsmod listing? (UPDATE) I
just found out that Knoppix 3.3 doesn't have the
snd_intel8x0 driver but my v3.0 install does... This
might be key to getting ALSA loaded. :-)

Heck, even attempts to just use the text interface of
gnomemeeting fails because starting gnomemeeting with
"--disable-sound" still results in it wanting to
connect to the sound device and hence, not running.

BTW, thanks for responding. Nobody on the Knoppix
forum responded to two postings there. The last time I
bothered with internet conferencing was in the mid
1990's with IBM's Person-to-person over dialup. With
todays broadband access, the experience has got to be
incredible. That is if I can get something working....
TIA.

bc :-)

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