Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Sound problem

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

Le lundi 03 avril 2006 à 21:40 +0200, Dion van Oirschot a écrit :
> Hi Damien,
> 
> 
> 1. Mic Boost is not the issue here. The received sound from echo
> service at the beginning (the nice lady explaining about echo service)
> is as low in volume as the things I say afterwards. But the beep is
> much louder.
> 

Then it is a volume issue on your side.

> 2. I checked the nice-value in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config; it is -10. I
> have no idea if this is high or not. I am not that technically
> experienced.
> 

It is huge, it means that your X Server has all the priority over other
processes, so Ekiga gets too low priority when there is activity. 
Use a sane value like 0 instead.

> 3. The Avahi daemon not running has no significance to this problem
> you say, but does that also mean I can ignore the error message?
> 

Yes.

> Thanks for your help so far!
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Dion
> 
> 
> Damien Sandras wrote: 
> > 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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