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Re: Knoppix, sound, GnomeMeeting



Robert Citek wrote:

>
> On Thursday, Dec 9, 2004, at 00:06 US/Central, Kyle Pointer wrote:
>
>> Robert Citek wrote:
>>
>>> How does one configure GnomeMeeting?
>>>
>> Don't take anything I say to seriously for it may be the bane of your 
>> existence... ;)
>> Knoppix uses the arts sound server, I personally hate it.
>> But what you need to do, probably, is to set arts to turn off after a 
>> certain amount of time. And turn off all startup notification for 
>> gnome meeting, because arts will take control of your sound device ( 
>> /dev/dsp ; /dev/sound/dsp ) and not let go...
>
>
> What's strange is that artsd is off once I'm in the KDE.  By off I 
> mean there is no artsd processes (ps fauxww | grep -i artsd) and I 
> have to turn it on from with the System Control Menu before I can test 
> the sound.
>
>> And make sure when you setup gnome meeting you tell it to use the 
>> ALSA or OSS mixers.
>
>
> I'm not quite clear on how to do this.  GM never even gets far enough 
> to do any configuration.
>
>> You may have to apt-get alsa-utils ( may be called alsa-util ) along 
>> with possibly alsa-base, etc.
>
>
> That's easy enough to do.  I'll give this a whirl later this evening.
>
>> But hopefully just keeping arts from interfering will be all you 
>> need. :)
>> Sorry if you aren't using KDE ands arts isn't the problem, I am 
>> assuming quite a bit. :)
>
>
> I am using KDE (the default with Knoppix), so your assumptions are 
> right on.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
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If all else fails, I would try to update gnome meeting, that could 
always be the problem.. :-\
Could be some issue with the version

--Kyle

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