Damien Sandras wrote:
> I subscribed to this mailing list, because GnomeMeeting users have
> reported a problem using ALSA 0.9.0RC5 together with GnomeMeeting and
> RedHat 8.0.
> 
> Actually, the problem is simple to explain, hard to fix, at least for
> me. Several users complained that using GnomeMeeting was freezing their
> machine. This corresponds to a driver bug, somewhere, as "user-space"
> programs can't crash a machine directly. The only particularity of
> GnomeMeeting is that it is reading and writing to the device at the same
> time.

I had similar problems. A patch from Jaroslav Kysela fixed the problem 
for me (see attachment).

> 
> Thanks,

bye,
Wilfried