Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Re: works with OSS drivers on Debian 2.4.21 kernel but not Knoppix 2.4.22

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

> But this doesn't explain why it works fine on my
> desktop without the ALSA drivers. Oh well. For what

OSS drivers sometimes work, sometimes don't. With i810 they generally do
not work as the driver (and the chipset) doesn't support the rate
required by GnomeMeeting.

The ALSA plugin is able to do resampling, ie choose a rate supported by
the chipset, and convert it to the rate required by GnomeMeeting.

> it's worth, video comes across fine but only one audio
> codec seems to work and even that makes me sound like
> Elvin and the Chipmonks talking though an electric
> fan.

Having only one codec working is not normal. Check that audio channels
are correctly started.

> It's the SpeexNarrow-8k codec and I was trying it all
> inside the local LAN. I'll search around to see if I
> can't figure out how to improve the audio to a usable
> level. It could be a full-duplex issue since neither
> system currently supports full duplex.
> 

If you have ALSA, full-duplex should work with all recent soundcards
without having anything to do.

> It's a pretty nice app and if I can get audio working,
> I'll probably start using it.
> 
> For what it's worth, I saw the "--disable-sound"
> option when, at the CLI, I entered "gnomemeeting
> --help". It appears the whole GNOME framework gets
> involved here and wants to show its option list too. I
> don't know GNOME and didn't expect this so I thought
> this was all part of gnomemeeting.  My bad.
> 

It disables the sound daemon for GNOME apps, that's a default GNOME app
setting that doesn't act on GnomeMeeting.

> Doug( appearently, with a bag over my head ) ;-)
> BTW, had I originally recognized the gnome.org site
> was hosting the list, I probably would NOT have used
> my yahoo.com email address... SPAMmers have made email
> a real pain the the arss.

Indeed, receiving more than 100 spams a day to the mailing list and a
bit more to my personal account is a pita ;)
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