Skype, Ekiga, and OSS
Predrag Punosevac
punosevac at math.arizona.edu
Thu Sep 20 01:55:52 PDT 2007
Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Shantanoo Mahajan wrote:
>>
>> On 15-Aug-07, at 1:48 PM, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
>>
>>> Beech Rintoul wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Predrag Punosevac said:
>>>>
>>>>> I was wondering if anybody is using successfully Skype or Ekiga
>>>>> (any other SIP phone) via the Open Sound System compiled from
>>>>> ports? Would you mind sharing your devfs.conf file and rc.conf
>>>>> file?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you
>>>>> Predrag
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> net/skype in the ports works out of the box. No special configs
>>>> needed. net/skype-devel is a work in progress and is currently broken.
>>>>
>>>> Beech
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Maybe with build in OSS but not with OSS compiled from ports. In
>>> particular, how do I set up microphone. I can hear the test call but
>>> my voice is not recorded.
>>
>> You may try following command:
>>
>> $ mixer igain 90 rec 90 mic 90
>>
>> regards,
>> shantanoo
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> OK,
> I am sure it is a mixer problem. I tried your advice this is the result
> [pedja@ /usr/home/Pedja]$ mixer
> Mixer pcm is currently set to 45:45
> Recording source:
>
>
> [pedja@ /usr/home/Pedja]$ mixer igain 90 rec 90 mic 90
> mixer: unknown device: igain
> usage: mixer [-f device] [-s | -S] [dev [+|-][voll[:[+|-]volr]] ...
> mixer [-f device] [-s | -S] recsrc ...
> mixer [-f device] [-s | -S] {^|+|-|=}rec rdev ...
> devices: pcm
> rec devices:
>
> I tried as a supper user too. It makes no difference.
>
> But the following outputs are interesting
> [pedja@ /usr/home/Pedja]$ ossinfo
> Version info: OSS 4.0 (build 070707/200708012238/C (0x00040002)
> Platform: FreeBSD/i386 6.2-STABLE-200706 FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE-200706 #0:
> Sun Jun 3 14:20:02 UTC 2007
> root at dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP
>
> Number of audio devices: 9
> Number of audio engines: 9
> Number of MIDI devices: 0
> Number of mixer devices: 1
>
>
> Device objects
> 0: audigyls0 AudigyLS
> 1: vmix0 OSS transparent virtual support
>
> MIDI devices (/dev/midi*)
>
> Mixer devices (/dev/mixer*)
> 0: AudigyLS Mixer (Mixer 0 of device object 0)
>
> Audio devices
> /dev/oss/audigyls0/pcm0 AudigyLS front (device index 0)
> /dev/oss/audigyls0/pcm1 AudigyLS (shadow) (device index 1)
> /dev/oss/audigyls0/pcm2 AudigyLS center/lfe (device index 2)
> /dev/oss/audigyls0/pcm3 AudigyLS surround (device index 3)
> /dev/oss/audigyls0/pcm4 AudigyLS 5.1 output (device index 4)
> /dev/oss/vmix0/pcm0 AudigyLS front (VMIX0) (device index 5)
> /dev/oss/vmix0/pcm1 AudigyLS front (VMIX0) (device index 6)
> /dev/oss/vmix0/pcm2 AudigyLS front (VMIX0) (device index 7)
> /dev/oss/vmix0/pcm3 AudigyLS front (VMIX0) (device index 8)
>
> Note that number of mixer devices is zero.
>
> [pedja@ /usr/home/Pedja]$ ossmix
> Selected mixer 0/
> Known controls are:
> pcm <both/leftvol>[:<rightvol>] (currently 45:45)
> rear <both/leftvol>[:<rightvol>] (currently 48:48)
> rear.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
> center <both/leftvol>[:<rightvol>] (currently 48:48)
> center.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
> ext.spread ON|OFF (currently OFF)
> ext.loopback ON|OFF (currently OFF)
> ext.recordvol <monovol> (currently 128)
> ext.recordsrc <MIC|LINE> (currently MIC)
> vmix0-src <Fast|Low|Medium|High|High+|Production|OFF>
> (currently Fast)
> vmix0-vol <monovol> (currently 25.0 dB)
> vmix0-out <leftVU>:<rightVU>] (currently 0:0)
> vmix0-out.pcm5 <monovol> (currently 25.0 dB)
> vmix0-out <leftVU>:<rightVU>] (currently 0:0)
> vmix0-out.pcm6 <monovol> (currently 25.0 dB)
> vmix0-out <leftVU>:<rightVU>] (currently 0:0)
> vmix0-out.pcm7 <monovol> (currently 25.0 dB)
> vmix0-out <leftVU>:<rightVU>] (currently 0:0)
> vmix0-out.pcm8 <monovol> (currently 25.0 dB)
> vmix0-out <leftVU>:<rightVU>] (currently 0:0)
> vmix0-in <leftVU>:<rightVU>] (currently 0:0)
>
> The native mixer is enabled in the rc.conf file
>
> Could you give me some kind of hint any suggestions? What should I
> read? Documentation?
>
>
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Just as a follow up on my earlier problems with Skype. I was rebuilding
my userland over the weekend due to the XOrg 7.3 update. By accident I
updated also OSS port.
My skype now works flawlessly. I found out that there was a mixer bug
for the AudigySE card (I thought something was wrong with my oss mixer
of course since the built in oss ROCKS but I am not using it)
By the way developers did spectacular job with XOrg 7.3. Everything went
smoothly.
Sincerely,
Predrag Punosevac
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