Re: [Ekiga-list] ekiga-list Digest, Vol 38, Issue 15

[Roger <arelem bigpond com>]

Hi Bret
Yes they are mutually exclusive,Ekiga is open, skype is closed and guarded.
You won't need a headset if you have a usb mic and speakers.

I have a small stereo in the output from the computer and that does for 
everything.
The mic from guitar hero works with Audacity and other inputs but not skype.

Yes I installed using yum in Fedora and it did so seamlesly however it 
apparently insists on signing up to Diamond card before I can use it, 
and that is something I don't like, Open source doesn't force one into a 
position.

There is a tool for converting rpm's to .debs and .deb to rpm, I used it 
years ago. I think it was called Alien.  
http://ubuntusite.com/convert-rpm-to-deb/
Roger
> Hello, Roger.
>
> I may be wrong, but I understand that Skype and Ekiga are incompatible;
> mutually exclusive, and that calls cannot be made between one and the
> other.
>
> If I am wrong, hopefully someone from Ekiga will correct me on this.
>
> Because of (my understanding of) the incompatibility between Skype and
> Ekiga, I have both now installed, and, accounts set up for each, with
> test calls successfully now made to each (Skype is not as easy to get
> going - I needed to use a headset, to get sound input working, and the
> microphone in my webcam had worked okay with the Ekiga test call).
>
> But, due to the version of Ekiga that is in the Ubuntu 8.04 package
> repository, and, the inability to answer calls with that version
> (2.0.12), I apparently do not have a working version of Ekiga, and, one
> is apparently not easily available for Ubuntu 8.04.
>
> Fedora 11 that you have, may have a 3.x version of Ekiga, in its (RPM ?)
> package repository, so you may have better luck with getting that
> working, but, as mentioned above, I believe that will still not let you
> communicate with Skype clients, for which, I believe, you need to use
> Skype, or, otherwise, you need to convince them to switch to (or, to
> also use) Ekiga.
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
>