ekiga conflict

[Sandor Z Nemeth]

Hi,

On Mon, 29 May 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> Quoting Sandor Z Nemeth <nemeths at for.mat.bham.ac.uk> (Mon, 29 May 2006 14:47:20 +0100 (BST)):
>
>> Also, ekiga cannot read from the sound device /dev/dsp0.0. It seems that
>> no telephony program works for me (I tried both "ekiga" and "skype").
>> People cannot hear me and I cannot hear them. However, I have sound on my
>> system, and I can also record voice with audacity. I have no idea what's
>> going wrong. I have a "Creative Sound Blater Live 24! external" sound
>> card.
>
> USDB audio doesn't do full-duplex. You can either read or write to the
> soundcard, but not both. If you have a uhci controller, you can patch
> the source to allow both. I suggest to search in the multimedia
> mailinglist for this, I don't know it out of the top of my head where
> you can find the part which needs to be patched.
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.

Thanks, at least I can understand what's going on now.

Bye,
Sandor