[GnomeMeeting-list] Re: Audio problem using GM

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hello,

Le mardi 26 juillet 2005 à 16:22 -0400, Neville Chandler a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for your response.  I tried the recorder at h323.voxgratia.org
> and sometimes it worked perfectly and at other times the output was
> blank!
> For the recorder to work every time, I had to execute "alsactl restore"
> before connecting.
> 

Then I guess something is muting the microphone. "alsactl restore" 
is simply restoring this.

> I've also discovered this error message in "dmesg":
> 
> ALSA sound/core/oss/mixer_oss.c:847: ERROR (slot != ((void *)0)) (called 
> from e13eb438)
> 
> I'm using off the shelf stuff from the suse 9.2 distribution.  I didn't
> expect to see this.  Do you think my problems could be connected to this?
> 

I don't think so, but I'm not sure.

> -- Neville Chandler
> 
> 
> Damien Sandras wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >Can you try connecting to h323.voxgratia.org to make sure you really do
> >not send audio?
> >
> >I'm convinced your setup is correct from what you describe, the problem
> >would in that case be on the remote side.
> >
> >
> >Le mardi 26 juillet 2005 à 09:20 -0400, Neville Chandler a écrit :
> >  
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>Help!
> >>
> >>I'm running SuSE Linux 9.2 (i586) with 2.6.8-24.16-default kernel on a
> >>Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop.
> >>
> >>Installed GM and Alsa are:
> >>
> >>gnomemeeting-1.2.1-2
> >>alsa-1.0.6-8
> >>
> >>I'm having problems sending audio.  Video out and video/audio in work
> >>quite well, however I've been unsuccessful in outputting audio.
> >>
> >>I've configured the audio (alsa) using the Druid.  The record/playback
> >>works as expected (with a 4 second delay).  I've twiddled with
> >>alsaconf and alsamixer (capture), but for all my efforts I cannot send
> >>audio!
> >>
> >>The alsa modules loaded are:
> >>
> >>$ lsmod | grep snd
> >>snd_pcm_oss            57896  0
> >>snd_mixer_oss          19200  2 snd_pcm_oss
> >>snd_seq                53008  1
> >>snd_seq_device          8716  1 snd_seq
> >>snd_intel8x0           31396  5
> >>snd_ac97_codec         69728  1 snd_intel8x0
> >>snd_pcm                96776  3
> >>snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
> >>snd_timer              24708  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> >>snd_page_alloc         10248  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> >>snd                    60164  17
> >>snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,
> >>
> >>snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> >>soundcore               9056  2 snd
> >>
> >>
> >>The audio system works with other applications (full duplex).  Could
> >>you provide pointers to what I might be doing wrong (or not doing)?
> >>
> >>Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>-- Neville Chandler
> >>   <n chandler acm org>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> 
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