Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Sound problem

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

Le lundi 03 avril 2006 à 19:12 +0200, Dion van Oirschot a écrit :
> 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)

Have you tried to enable "Mic BOOST" in your favorite mixer?

> - 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.

Wouldn't you be using a distribution that gives all the priority to the
X server so that other applications can not work in real time?

See the "nice_value" in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config .


> 
> 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?
> 

It is not related.

> Any help is very much appreciated,
> 
> Dion
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