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

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le lundi 03 avril 2006 à 18:09 +0100, Leon Stringer a écrit :
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 10:06 +0200, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > Le dimanche 02 avril 2006 à 16:17 +0100, Leon Stringer a écrit :
> > > 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?

Well Ekiga shoudl suspend ESD, but on some distributions, ESD is buggy
and waits a few seconds before being suspending. Ubuntu is an example...
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