Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] no sound!

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

Le lun 02/02/2004 à 09:14, Shi Jin a écrit :
> Hi there, 
> 
> I have been trying to make gnomemeeting work on my
> gentoo 1.4 for a long time. 
> I could use it to connect to another netmeeting in my
> LAN and see the webcam's nice videos. But the biggest
> trouble is: there is no SOUND! 
> 
> My sound card works great. I could use
> gnome-sound-recorder to record my voice nicely. But
> everytime I try the configuration druid to test audio,
> 
> I get 
> The selected audio device (/dev/sound/dsp) was
> successfully opened but it is impossible to write data
> to this device. Please check your audio setup. 
> but here is ls -l 
> crw------- 1 seki audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969
> /dev/sound/dsp 
> crw------- 1 seki audio 14, 0 Dec 31 1969
> /dev/sound/mixer 
> crw------- 1 seki audio 14, 1 Dec 31 1969
> /dev/sound/sequencer 
> crw------- 1 seki audio 14, 8 Dec 31 1969
> /dev/sound/sequencer2 
> And I tried "lsof |grep sound" as suggested by the FAQ
> and got 
> kdeinit 13633 seki 10u CHR 14,0 2063 /dev/sound/mixer 
> 
> There is no sound server running. 
> Another thing I have to mention is that when
> gnomemeeting starts, I saw this err message on the
> command line: 
> Failed to load avcodec_set_print_fn 
> 

Yes, Gentoo packs are buggy.

> Any idea what is going wrong? 
> I think my permission on the device should be fine. 
> Would the kdeinit using /dev/sound/mixer a problem?
> But I cannot kill kdeinit otherwise kde will end. 
> Actually I tried to use a plan X, without any WM,
> there is still no sound. 
> Then I don't understand why I cannot write to the
> /dev/sound/dsp device. 
> 

I guess it is not full-duplex. You will have to switch to ALSA to have
full-duplex working.

> Would the error "Failed to load avcodec_set_print_fn"
> be the cause? Then how can I solve it? 
> 

No that is not the cause, but it could be the cause of crashes.

> Thank you very much. 
> 
> Shi Jin
> 
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