More Gentoo usability issues :(

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Emmanuel Gravel wrote:

> Second issue. Both using the nforce-audio drivers and the alsa drivers,
> Gnome's sound recorder doesn't record anything from the mic, and
> playback only results in: osscommon: Unable to open /dev/dsp (in use?).
> I tried to re-emerge Gnome with esd, alsa and oss as USE variables, but
> since it's already installed, it doesn't want to recompile with the new
> options. I don't know if that's what the issue was either.

what kernel are you running? I assume its a m/b with an onboard nvidia
soundcard, no? did you compile alsa from the kernel, or downloaded
seperately? are you loading the oss-compatable modules from alsa? what
happens if you kill off esd then try it?

you can re-emerge the package by hand (after editing your USE variables)
one at a time. it'll recompile 'em. trust me, i've done it many times.
*or*, just to be freaky, download the gnome2.5 packages from
breakmygentoo.net. edit your USE flages, then emerge -u gnome :) be
wary, though. gnome2.5 *is* developement.


David

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