Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Could not open audio channel for audio reception

[Leon Stringer <leon stringer ntlworld com>]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 10:06 +0200, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Le dimanche 02 avril 2006 �6:17 +0100, Leon Stringer a �it :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to connect to the echo test server and I'm getting the error:
> > 
> >  Could not open audio channel for audio reception
> > 
> >  An error occured while trying to play audio to the soundcard for the 
> >  audio reception. Please check that your soundcard is not busy and that
> >  your driver supports full-duplex.
> >  The audio reception has been disabled.
> > 
> > So I tried this on my other computer. I get the same error *but* the
> > echo test works! I hear the test message and my audio is fed back to me
> > (very choppy but that's another issue).

> I think you have some program like esd or artsd that is using the sound
> card already.

Yes you are correct, disabling esd fixed this. But I thought ESD
*should* be running to provide sound services to GNOME? Is this a
technical problem?