Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Peculiar sound behaviour

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le samedi 10 septembre 2005 à 20:07 -0400, Allan a écrit :
> I recently had a bad crash and had to reinstall just about everything.  In so 
> doing I noticed something peculiar about GM.  SUSE apparently does not 
> recognise the microphone in my webcamera automatically.  Before noticing 
> this, I installed GM, ran the configuration wizard, selecting the USB 
> microphone from my camera, and ran the audio test successfully.
> 
> Yet when I tried to conduct an audio test on h323 voxgratia org nothing would 
> be recorded and played back.  (I find voxgratia to be somewhat flaky, so I 
> can't swear that the problem does not lie there).  After some digging around, 
> I noticed that proc/asound only reported 1 sound card.  After installing the 
> second sound card (webcam) manually I found that I could now record and play 
> back from voxgratia.  I'm curious to know why the wizard would recognise my 
> microphone while GM itself doesn't appear to.
> 

In short words, that's impossible.

What could have happened is that ALSA returned the sound card as
existing and configured, but was not able to use it. GM (and the wizard)
get the list of available soundcards from ALSA.

> Allan
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