[Ekiga-list] Ekiga 2.04 and ALSA

[Rene Bartsch]

> Hi,
>  sound on linux continues to be a problem.
>
> In some of my darker momements, I have mispronounced "ALSA" as
> "ulcer".
>
> So where is real problem?
> The alsa plugins in pwlib follow the alsa examples, and "should"
> be correct. Then a bit of reading finds that between alsa
> 1.0.10 and 1.0.11   (or was it 1.0.11 and 1.0.12?) that the alsa
> internals were changed to add an extra dmix operator in the
> system asound.conf  and I just don't get it.
>
> Do we decide that the direction of alsa is not right for this project
> and work on a openal based plugin. Will that be more reliable ?


Since Ekiga 2.0.4 ALSA works fine for me.

First, don't use ALSA driver 1.0.11*! (Upgrade your kernel or driver modules)

I'm using the Gentoo versions of  "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
Driver Version 1.0.12rc1" (Kernel 2.6.18), alsa-lib 1.0.14, alsa-headers
1.0.14 and alsa-utils 1.0.14, opal 2.2.4, pwlib 1.10.3 and Ekiga 2.0.4.

With the following asound.conf I'm using just the "Default" devices for
audio in Ekiga 2.0.4 (just rename your audio card):

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pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm {
        type asym
        playback.pcm {
            type        dmix
            ipc_key     1024
            ipc_perm    0666
            slave.pcm {
                type    hw
                card    "Audio"
            }
        }
        capture.pcm {
            type        dsnoop
            ipc_key     1025
            ipc_perm    0666
            slave.pcm {
                type    hw
                card    "U0x46d0x8cb"
            }
        }
    }
}

ctl.!default {
    type        hw
    card        "Audio"
}


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Renne