[Asterisk-Users] Problems with asterisk and gnophone on Gentoo box

[Alastair Maw]

Mine:
> snd-pcm                60960   0  [snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss]

Yours:
> snd-pcm                65828   0  [snd-pcm-oss]

Note that you don't actually have a sound driver loaded there! You 
should have snd-nvaudio listed.

If OSS is working under xmms, it looks to me like your kernel has OSS 
support built in. You need to disable this, otherwise ALSA will get 
terribly confused and won't work.

You can use either ALSA or OSS, not both. If you use ALSA you can then 
put an OSS compatibility layer on top of it. But get ALSA working first, 
then worry about the OSS layer.

Check your dmesg output for ALSA failing to load due to this.

Alternatively, get rid of ALSA entirely and just keep OSS (although this 
isn't recommended - ALSA is much nicer).

> I'm running asterisk 0.7.2 from the portage tree.  Should I upgrade
> to v1-0_stable from CVS or is that unlikely to be the issue here?

That's not the issue.

Regards,

Alastair