Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Full Duplex

[Josep Puigdemont <baldrick terra es>]

Hi Dave,

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 23:34, Dave Coventry wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:15, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > > That it's not gnomemeeting's fault and to check my installation?
> > > You seem awfully certain that I have not done so!
> > 
> > It seems so. If you have read the FAQ, then in which case of the FAQ
> > related to sound issues are you?
> > 
> > If so, what solution have you tried to fix it?
> > 
> > Once it is done, what is the remaining problem?
> > 
> 
> No, you misunderstand me. I am not blaming Gnomemeeting, I am just
> trying to get my system to work using Full Duplex, which, as I
> understand it, is what is required for gnomemeeting.
> 
> Under the OSS sound drivers the sound works, but Full Duplex produces
> errors and I have not yet managed to set up my ALSA installation. (cat
> /dev/sndstat produce the following error message: "VIA 82xx not found or
> device busy")
>  I was trying to find out if other users had managed to solve this as I
> know from google searches that the via82xx sound card is a pig to
> configure correctly.
> 

I have a MSI VIA KT266 chipset based mb, which includes the VIA 8233 for
its build-in sound card (maybe it is a VIA 8233-Pre if that exists,
dunno).
I have tested gnomemeeting with it as a sound device and it seems to
work well (quality doesn't seem to be as good as for my other sound card
a SB Live! though).
I haven't done any exceptional configurations since I wouldn't know how
to do it either :) I just compiled my own kernel with ALSA modules and
installed them...
I use debian-sid with a 2.4.22 kernel

Here is some info:

$ cat /snd/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.8 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux deimos 2.4.22-6 #1 Sun Nov 30 12:42:04 CET 2003 i686
Config options: 0
 
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
 
Card config:
VIA 8233-Pre at 0xc800, irq 11
 
Audio devices:
0: VIA 8233-Pre (DUPLEX)
 
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
 
Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
 
Timers:
7: system timer
 
Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

modules loaded:
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: PF (pwcx)
snd-pcm-oss            37572   0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss          12976   0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-via82xx            13600   0
snd-mpu401-uart         3312   0 [snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi            13568   0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq                36368   0
snd-seq-device          4240   0 [snd-rawmidi snd-seq]
snd-pcm                58276   0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx]
snd-timer              14404   0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc          6228   0 [snd-via82xx snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec         41400   0 [snd-via82xx]
snd                    32068   0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-ac97-codec]

I have no idea if I should get rid of the snd-[pcm,mixer]-oss modules,
or any other, but like this seems to work :)

I wish I could give you more details, but... well, at least you know it
can be done without being an expert :)

/Josep