[Xastir] Soundmodem Diagnostics Disappear?

[Timothy M. Admire]

Good tips, thank you!  I will give it a go.

Tim

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On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski <
curious at bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl> wrote:

> Good Afternoon,
>>
>> I have an iGate setup running Xastir+Soundmodem on Ubuntu 10.04 and I am
>> trying to tune Soundmodem but I'm having some issues.  What's happening is
>> when I try to open any of the diagnostic items in Soundmodem, they work
>> for
>> about 5 seconds, then they go blank.  The only way that I can get them to
>> run again is close out of Soundmodemconfig, then restart it and the same
>> thing happens again.  It basically makes the diagnostic tools useless.
>>  Has
>> anyone seen this before?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> yes, i have similiar issues when using ALSA mode on plenty of
> custom-rolled gentoo systems (glibc 32bit, glibc 64bit, uclibc)
>
> in my case i need to kill soundmodemconfig manually.
>
> work-around for me is just to use OSS mode, i guess soundmodem
> author forgot to update to new alsa api some ugh... few years ago...
>
> there seems to be also some more pending bugs, i.e.
> when you disconnect all clients from /dev/soundmodem0 soundmodem
> consumes 100% cpu, also when you try to use soundmodem for
> recieve-only (no transmit) after some time xastir crashes,
> and upon next restart soundmodem plays all packets which 'should not
> be relayed' for few minutes.
>
> as work around i just have to use full rf-gating and mute soundcard output
> manually - with such config it works stable for months.
>
>
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