[GnomeMeeting-list] Gnomemeeting crashes at start with ALSA problem

[Conrad Beckert <conrad_videokonferenz gmx de>]

Hi,

has anybody an idea, what's wrong here. After unknowlingly having set sound to 
oss I switched back to ALSA - only to discover that Gnomemeeting doesn't 
start anymore:

$gnomemeeting
ALSA lib conf.c:1165:(parse_def) dmix is not a compound
ALSA lib conf.c:1578:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:6:10:Das Argument ist 
ungültig
ALSA lib conf.c:2823:(snd_config_hook_load) /home/beccon/.asoundrc may be old 
or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2686:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load 
returned error: Das Argument ist ungültig
ALSA lib conf.c:3052:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing 
configuration

The problem seems to be linked to an .asoundrc  file I once put in my home 
directory as recommended by the mailing list to avoid sound card conflicts 
with e.g. Noatun which is almost all the time playing.

The .asoundrc

pcm.asym {
        type asym
        playback.pcm "dmix"
        capture.pcm "hw:0"
}
pcm.dmix {
        type dmix
        ipc_key 1024
        slave {
        pcm "hw:0"
                period_size 1024
                buffer_size 8192
                format S32_LE
        }
}
pcm.!default {
        type plug
        slave {
                pcm "asym"
        }
}

Any ideas?

System: Gnomemeeting 1.2.1, Kanotix 2005-02 

Thank you in advance
Conrad