Re: [Ekiga-list] Setting up ekiga

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

alex wrote:
> I have installed "Ekiga" under "ubuntu Karmic", installed the missing
> package "libpt-1.11.2-plugins-oss" (I'm wondering why it doesn't install
> automatically as it seems to be a dependency??) and executed these

What version of ekiga do you use?  If you use v3, you do not need that
package, which is very old.  "dpkg -l ekiga" should tell it.

> commands:
> 
>  $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/ekiga/devices/audio/input_device --type string "/dev/dsp (PTLIB/OSS)" 
>  $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/ekiga/devices/audio/output_device --type string "/dev/dsp (PTLIB/OSS)"
>  $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/ekiga/general/sound_events/output_device --type string "/dev/dsp (PTLIB/OSS)"
> 
> But I still cannot establish the sip:500 ekiga net connection. So I

There was/is a problem with ekiga.net server concerning calling 500.

> found out how to get the debug informations and here they are. (But
> anyway it would be much nicer if the program itself would tell me which
> problems it has and what I'm supposed to do about it, as from the debug
> informations it must know which problems it has. It seems to be that
> there's an "internal server error" and the problem is not on "my"
> side??? For someone who is installing this for the first time, it's very
> confusing and annoying not to know what the problem is and spending
> hours in "Google" just to find out nothing...)

You're right, but it is not easy and we lack the manpower to do it now.

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Eugen