Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Help!! - ALSA crashes my Gnomemeeting

[Marc Williams <marcw onlymooo com>]

On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:27, Damien Sandras wrote:
> You are not the only one to mention kernel crashes using GnomeMeeting
> under Redhat 8.0.
> System crashing means a driver bug. As me, and many other people who are
> using ALSA have no problem, it would indicate a Redhat 8.00 bug.
> Did you have system crashing when using GnomeMeeting before using ALSA?

No.  It worked great.

> Did you compile ALSA yourself?

No.  Used freshRPMs.

I'm doing a bit of looking elsewhere also.  I'd rather not remove ALSA
until I give it a fair workout so I'm looking forward to fixing this....


> 
> 
> 
> Le mer 06/11/2002 à 17:18, Marc Williams a écrit :
> > Being the compulsive tinkerer that can't leave well enough alone, I
> > decided to install ALSA on my RH 8.0 system.  Why?  I have no idea other
> > than a lot of people say very positive things about ALSA.  I followed
> > the directions on the freshrpms and ALSA sites to install.  Set a few
> > things in alsamixer and voila!  Everything seemed to work.
> > 
> > Until I fired up Gnomemeeting.  A few seconds after connecting with
> > anyone (I've tried two different people) my system locks up tighter than
> > a (pick your metaphore).  Mouse is frozen, no keyboard, yadda yadda. 
> > Requires a hard boot.  Thank goodness for ext3, eh?
> > 
> > All my other apps that I've tried so far seem to work well.  At least
> > those that deliver audio.  I don't have any other apps that use the mic.
> > 
> > So even though I'm fairly certain that this is not a Gnomemeeting issue
> > since it seems that a lot of people use ALSA with Gnomemeeting, I
> > thought I'd ask here for help.  After all, people here are nice and
> > besides, I'm not subscribed to an ALSA list.  :)
> > 
> > Not sure what info is needed to track this down.  Here's my modules.conf
> > (I'm sure it will wrap horribly):
> > 
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > alias eth0 eepro100
> > # alias sound-slot-0 es1371
> > # post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
> > >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > # pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
> > >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > post-install snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > pre-remove snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > alias char-major-81 bttv
> > # ALSA portion
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
> > # module options should go here
> > # OSS/Free portion
> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> > # card #1
> > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> > 
> > I really appreciate any pointers you can give to get this thing fixed so
> > that I don't have to back out the ALSA stuff.  In case it's not obvious
> > from the modules.conf file, my card is an Ensoniq ES1371.  CPU is a AMD
> > k6-2 400.  I used the RPMs available on the freshrpms site.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
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