Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Peculiar sound behaviour

[Allan <amau sympatico ca>]

On Sunday 11 September 2005 05:20, Damien Sandras wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks for clearing that up.  I should have suspected ALSA as I find it 
somewhat unreliable.

Allan