[GnomeMeeting-list] Sound problem

[Dion van Oirschot <dion van oirschot telenet be>]

Hello all,


I have been testing Ekiga 2.0.1. today on a Debian Sid system.

Having a big problem with sound. I tested it with the echo service.
These are my observations:

- The beep you hear when connecting is loud and clear (so audio settings 
are ok)
- After connecting to the echo service, the sound is ok, though a bit 
low in volume (much lower than the beep)
- After a short while the sound gets awfull. Cracking sound, almost not 
possible to understand what is said.
- When I minimize the Ekiga window and maximize it again, sound gets ok 
again.
- When I start another app while keeping connected to the echo service, 
the sound gets awfull again, so I need to minimize/maximize the Ekiga 
window again (sometimes a couple of times) to get 'normal sound' back.

I am using ALSA and a Logitech USB headset. Working with the 
Enlightenment 17 desktop, but same problem appears in IceWM.

I ran Ekiga with option -d 1 and during startup I got this error message:

2006/04/03 19:10:27.477   0:02.488                        ekiga AVAHI   
Error initializing Avahi: %sDaemon not running

I don't know if the sound problem relates to this Avahi daemon not running.
Do I need to install some Avahi package in order for Ekiga to run properly?

Any help is very much appreciated,

Dion