Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga and VoipCheap

[Ed <Ekiga 0x1b com>]

OT - top posting is bad  ;) dinnisk should be LOL

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Manolo _ <mac_man2005 hotmail it> wrote:
> Sorry, I just have no idea of what "configure a bypass for Ekiga" would mean
> in this context...
> Of course I'll post the possible solution to my problem on this list,
> whatever it is.
>
> Regards.

bypass is to go around. To make work without fixing. a kludge

please see this link for a way around the Ekiga, Alsa, PulseAudio problems.
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/blog/index.cgi/computers/desktops/ekiga-pulseaudio-dbus.html

The answer is to suspend PulseAudio while using Ekiga. Yenya wrote
this up 20071207 and had to compile Ekiga with D-Bus support - things
may have changed since.


>
>> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:03:33 -0700
>> From: Ekiga 0x1b com
>> To: ekiga-list gnome org
>> Subject: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga and VoipCheap
>>
>> This is a bandaid at best - while I'm happy to use Slackware & OBSD -
>> it looks like both Fedora and Ubuntu have gone with Pulseaudio and it
>> is my understanding that applications that work with pulseaudio
>> essentially get their own interface to the sound system - rather than
>> break all the other apps that work with Pulse audio for these
>> distributions, you should be able to configure a bypass for Ekiga that
>> takes it to Jack or Alsa directly. wish I knew enough to help at this
>> stage - ss_ss
>>
>> If you do work it out, and Ekiga remains unhappy with Pulseaudio, I
>> would appreciate it if you could post it to this list - I'm about to
>> install Fedora9 and want to use Ekiga too.
>>
>> TIA - Ed
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Alan Lord <alanslists gmail com> wrote:
>> > Damien Sandras wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Le lundi 30 juin 2008 à 18:23 +0000, Manolo _ a écrit :
>> >>>
>> >>> Removing pulseaudio would mean removing the ubuntu-desktop package. I
>> >>> made it once and it automatically removed all the packages related to
>> >>> ubuntu-desktop (evolution, GDM, etc.).
>> >
>> > It shouldn't.
>> >
>> > Ubuntu Desktop is a "meta package and there are few times I've removed
>> > things and it has removed that one with no detrimental effects.
>> >
>> > Obviously YMMV but a quick google will show you what I mean:
>> >
>> > "ubuntu-desktop (just like kubuntu-desktop and others) is a metapackage,
>> > meaning that it doesn't contain anything but depends on many other
>> > packages. (but not other package depends on it). So installing
>> > ubuntu-desktop will install Gnome and all apps that are in the default
>> > Ubuntu desktop, but removing the ubuntu-desktop package will not remove
>> > anything else than the metapackage.
>> >
>> > Metapackages are often used to install groups of packages in easy way."
>> >
>> > Al
>> >
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