Re: [Ekiga-list] Issues

[bnc <bnc netspeed com au>]

Bruce,
Like you I tried pulse a while back and eventually deleted it so I
could get some sound to work.
With Suse 11,2 however it now works, including my Bluetooth
headset(this enables me to make calls via ekiga and leave my notebook on
the bench) 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2009-12-15 23:55:40 +0100
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

There is a bit more of a learning curve. The trick is to get pulse to
work then get applications to talk to it. For ekiga for example I just
put 'pulse' into the sound devices using gconf-editor. Then to get that
to work you need to set up a .asoundrc file in your home directory
which contains
 
pcm.pulse {
 type pulse
    }

ctl.pulse {
 type pulse
    }

There re also pulse tools which, on my system, are here
/usr/bin/pabrowse
/usr/bin/pacat
/usr/bin/pavucontrol
/usr/bin/pacmd
/usr/bin/pactl
/usr/bin/padsp
/usr/bin/paplay
/usr/bin/paprefs
/usr/bin/parec
/usr/bin/parecord
/usr/bin/paplay
/usr/bin/paprefs
/usr/bin/parec
/usr/bin/pamon

hth someone.

Brian




On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:01:43 -0800
Bruce Ferrell <bferrell baywinds org> wrote:

> Derek,
> 
> pulse isn't right anywhere and the only the the pulse devs says is
> it's the applications fault.... Which I would say OK to except it's
> ALL the applications.  That answer points to lousy devs who refuse to
> accept that they've made an error
> 
> Bruce
> 
> P.S.
> 
> We've had this discussion before
> 
> 
> 
> Derek Smithies wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  One of the answers on this topic said that you had to use
> > pasuspender, and make some changes to alsa configuration files. the
> > changes required are non trivial.
> >    Some people claim the changes are easy - just paste in these
> > couple of lines they say. Those people were lucky. Other people
> > have invested tens of hours trying to decode & understand the
> > meaning of the components in the alsa configuration files.
> >    After too many hours of bitter experience, I suggest that you
> >  **Forget pasuspender
> >  **Refuse to make any changes to your configuration files.
> > 
> > The most recent version of ubuntu (9.10) has made a "reasonable"
> > job of pulseaudio. I suspect that the other major distros (fedorra,
> > suse) have also got pulse right.
> > 
> > The main problem in pulse is the
> >  *number of misbehaving alsa based applications out there,
> >      which do things wrong.
> >  *alsa audio drivers not being 100% compliant with alsa spec.
> > 
> > I suggest that you upgrade to the latest distro and get the most
> > recent versions of the different drivers.
> > 
> > I suggest you shut down every application that makes audio on your
> > desktop. One of them may be killing the sound device.
> > 
> > If you do a wireshark dump of the entire call, remember to set the
> > packet size to 2000, and look for the udp packets (which carry the
> > voice). There will be two streams of udp packets. One stream from
> > you to him. One stream from him to you.
> > you said voice stops after 15 (or so) seconds. Do the udp packets
> > stop being sent from your end? if they do, you know that the
> > problem is at your end.
> > 
> > Silence detection may have gone wrong. Turn off silence detection.
> > Does this help?
> > 
> > Eliminate the possibility of it being a firewall issue.
> > Get a second computer on your lan.
> > Can you do a ekiga call to that computer, and does the voice last
> > longer than 15 seconds? Get the other person to do the same.
> > 
> > 
> > Derek.
> > =======================================
> > 
> >  On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, David Bowman wrote:
> > 
> >> Okay, so first I'd like to say thank you for everything.  I'm a
> >> little further out of the water but I was wondering what this
> >> means:
> >>
> >> [jetblackbivouac localhost ~]$ pasuspender ekiga
> >> ALSA lib conf.c:976:(parse_value) default is not a string
> >> ALSA lib conf.c:1589:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:12:9:Unexpected
> >> char ALSA lib
> >> conf.c:2850:(snd_config_hook_load) /etc/alsa/alsactl.conf may be
> >> old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it ALSA lib
> >> conf.c:2714:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load
> >> returned error: Invalid argument ALSA lib
> >> control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0 ALSA lib
> >> control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:1 ALSA lib
> >> control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0 ALSA lib
> >> control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:1
> >>
> >> Both me and my partner could not be more grateful for all your
> >> help. Thanks for your time,
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> > 
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