Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Ekiga and KDE arts

[Stefan Stolz <s newslists googlemail com>]

Am Freitag 12 Mai 2006 20:40 schrieb Yannick-GNU/Linux:
> Hum... I'm not sure about anything here...
> My guess is this is a Dmix bug in ALSA. Maybe having gdb output when ekiga
> crash will show where the problem is (in libasound ?).
How do i make gdb output please?

> As a (bad) workaround, can you try to increase values in the .asoundrc of
> period_size and buffer_size ? (using ALSA, not arts, and DEFAULT in ekiga
> settings)
>
> As an exemple, can you try 8192 for period_size and 16384 for buffer_size.
> (2 occurences of each in the exemple file i provided in the wiki.ekiga.net)
> Problem is this should induce more latency.
Hmm, i tried it and now i have no sound with default, but ekiga don`t crashes 
any more. I saw in the debug mode following errors:
-->
ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2152:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave) Slave PCM not usable
Cannot initialize hardware parameter structure Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht 
gefundenCannot set access type Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefundenCannot 
set sample format Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefundenCannot set channel 
count Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefundenCannot set sample rate Datei oder 
Verzeichnis nicht gefundenCannot set period size Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht 
gefundenCannot set periods to Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefundenCannot set 
buffer_time to  400 ms Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefundenCannot set 
period_time to 200 ms   Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
<--

Greets
Stolzi

> The other way, is to try last CVS of ALSA, as they claim to have fixed a
> bug in the dmix system wich gives same symptoms as yours. But this was
> reported for ALSA 1.0.11, not your version...
>
> Exept that, i don't know what to do... but i'm not a dev, so you may get
> better help from other people here.
>
> Regards,
> Yannick
>
> Le Fri, 12 May 2006 19:23:34 +0200
>
> Stefan Stolz <s newslists googlemail com> a écrit :
> > Am Freitag 12 Mai 2006 19:18 schrieb Yannick-GNU/Linux:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can you provide more info on your system for deeper investigations ?
> > >
> > > Wich ALSA driver are you using ?
> > > $ lsmod | grep "intel"
> > >
> > > This should be :
> > > intel8x0 or intel8x0m or hda-intel
> >
> > This he says:
> > # lsmod | grep "intel"
> > snd_intel8x0           29852  2
> > snd_ac97_codec         82336  1 snd_intel8x0
> > snd_pcm                77576  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> > intel_agp              21020  1
> > agpgart                31560  1 intel_agp
> > snd                    48612  10
> > snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> > snd_page_alloc         10120  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> >
> > Thank you for help!
> >
> > Greets
> > Stolzi
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > Yannick
> > >
> > > Le Fri, 12 May 2006 18:52:41 +0200
> > >
> > > Stefan Stolz <s newslists googlemail com> a écrit :
> > > > > - 2: Configure DMIX in ALSA, and make Arts and Ekiga use DMIX (see
> > > > > wiki.ekiga.org for help)
> > > >
> > > > I have a new alsa version: 1.0.10rc3 the WIKI says i dont need this
> > > > with this version. But i tried it at all with the same result.
> > > > If i use "Alsa" and "default" the sound is very bad and then ekiga
> > > > crushes. If i use "Alsa" and "IntelICH6" it works only if i didn`t
> > > > run another app with sound.
> > >
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