ekiga fails to use sound card, other apps do, config help?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:58:00 -0600, Ted Faber <faber at ISI.EDU> wrote:

> I'm running a recent -CURRENT with gnome 2.20.  The specific ekiga setup
> is from ports:
>
> ekiga-2.0.9_1       VoIP phone for GNOME
> esound-0.2.38       A sound library for enlightenment package
> opal-2.2.8_1        VoIP abstraction library
> pwlib-1.10.3_4,1    A cross platform C++ library, used by OpenH323
>
> I've compiled pwlib with -DWITH_ESOUND (from the ports dir).  Ekiga
> gives me the choice of either using Esound or OSS, both of which fail
> differently.  OSS just makes a shrill beep when I run the audio test
> from the setup druid; Esound informs me that Ekiga cannot read data from
> Esound, though it opened correctly.
>
> I'm able to record sounds through the mic from the gnome sound recorder
> app.  I'm able to use the linux skype port from the ports tree
> completely.  /usr/local/bin/esdrec (from the esound port) is able to
> record from esd and sounds play normally.
>
> I've tried 3 different machines with 3 different soundcards.
>
> Configs, etc, available on request.
>
> Any ideas what's wrong?  Is ekiga working for anyone on -CURRENT?

You should talk with the right maintainer.

# cd /usr/ports/net/ekiga
# make maintainer
mi at aldan.algebra.com

Cheers,
Mezz


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