[Ekiga-list] ekiga and pulseaudio

[Damien Sandras]

Le mercredi 19 septembre 2007 à 16:14 +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth a
écrit :
> >> : Perhaps you should try on their mailing list... The problem is 
> probably
>  >> : related to pulseaudio itself...
>  >>
>  >> 	Maybe.
>  >>
>  >> 	The main question probably is whether ekiga ALSA plugin
>  >> supports reading and using the .asoundrc configuration at all. Because
>  >
>  >Of course, it is transparent. As long as you use the Default device, it
>  >will use whatever configuration comes with the Default device.
>  >
>  >> so far it seems ekiga tries to access the ALSA device directly
>  >> no matter what is written in .asoundrc. Using "ls -ltu" I have found
>  >> that ekiga does not reread .asoundrc even when "Detect devices"
>  >> button in the Audio Devices dialog is pressed.
>  >
>  >It is transparent, and handled by libasound.
> 
> First of all, sorry for breaking the reply chain but I just subscribed
> to the list.
> 
> Unfortunately, it seems that pwlib's device discovery does not use
> asoundrc. I tried ekiga today on a machine without any audio device but
> pulseaudio and alsa redirection to pa.
> 
> Same result: ekiga does not find any audio devices but 
> aplay/gstreamer/.. do.
> 

As I mentionned earlier in this thread, if you remap the default device
in .asoundrc and use it in Ekiga, it works.
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