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Martin Hope
M. Tiggelaar
Asked: 2012-02-24 08:21:45 +0800 CST
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First of al.. Linphone is the first (and only) VOIP client i found so far that is free.. looks decent AND most importand: it doesn't crash (ekiga - crashes randomly lol).

I use softphone for business (duo to me being in china and the phone number from Europe.. it kind of requires Internet if you want to do it cheap).

Linphone works perfect BUT has one little glitch:
It doesn't pick up on Sound devices.. it just shows Default alsa and default OSS.

In total what i want to achieve is -
1) Ring device on speakers
2) Microphone & Output sound on Headset.

Ubuntu it self sees them all perfectly fine in Sound Settings..

Anyone any ideas on this? I saw something about linphone using soundlist.. but that command doesn't exist in ubuntu?

Regards, Marco

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Martin Hope
grizwako
Asked: 2010-12-16 05:45:59 +0800 CST
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I installed wolf:et, and i cant get sound to work. Everything that i have installed is in default paths, i had 10.4 and then upgraded to 10.10 via software update gui. I had sound working in 10.04 with method under 2.

I have tried following

  1. killall esd; et; esd

    with that i get

    ------- sound initialization -------
    /dev/adsp: No such file or directory
    Could not open /dev/adsp
    ------------------------------------

  2. sudo -i
    echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
    echo "et.x86 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss
    exit

    with that i get

    bash: /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss: No such file or directory
    and indeed i do not have that, i have only sub0 and sub1 in pcm0p

  3. I have tried running et with et-sdl-sound script, but with that i get this output in console
    http://pastebin.com/J7gRU1uh
    I have probably messed up sdl libraries, could not get sound to work, so downloaded new from debian package site and installed them.

  4. Tried setting SDL_AUDIODRIVER="pulse" in et-sdl-sound, looks like i am getting same error as in method 3.

  5. pasuspender -- et +set s_alsa_pcm plughw:0

    gives me

    ------- sound initialization -------
    /dev/adsp: No such file or directory
    Could not open /dev/adsp
    _------------------------------------

Misc: @Oli: i do not know if i am running pulse or esd, how can i check that?

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Martin Hope
nixnotwin
Asked: 2010-12-01 00:41:01 +0800 CST
  • 2

Alsa wasn't functioning well on my laptop. The open source OSS sound system also failed to install. So I installed the closed source version of OSS and it is working fine. But the volume indicator applet in the system tray disappeared after installing OSS. The sound manager in System -> Preferences is giving an error. I tried to do sudo apt-get install oss4-gtk but it also tries to install `oss4-base'(which is open source version). How can I install the volume indicator applet and sound manager for closed source version of OSS?

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