Good time of the day, Camaleón.
Thank You for Your time and answer. You wrote: > Tested. And not good news ;-( > > I managed to place a call with Ekiga with my usual SIP account and > using the integrated mic/speakers from the netbook and it works... > but sadly the overall sound was simply terrible, unusuable to keep a > conversation. > > Thinking the problem could be the bad quality of the sound card, I > attached my usual Plantronics USB headset, which was detected by the > system without problems but still the call sound was very bad (very > cranky with a loud background sound). > > I'm starting to think the problem can be Ekiga itself, because using > the same SIP account, with the same headset, going out from the same > DSL router and calling the same phone number, in my Lenny system this > setup works very well but in Wheezy is impossible to use. May other OS components cause this? Though I do not know what. :o) > In brief: consider testing a different SIP/VOIP program. I have searched Debian on soft phones and found ihu (would call sip for me) linphone - fails to run w/ ALSA lib conf.c:4687:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0 ALSA lib control.c:951:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default:0 and sflphone - calls but I do not here sound though all volumes on ALSA mixer were high. And I saw no more soft phones in Debian from repo.s. So far, ekiga is the best option for me, and I would say, most comfortable its GUI comparing w/ the above. But was is bad to me w/ ekiga is - its doc.s do not specify my problem - as what is expected to not work and therefore a fix is offered - works for me and therefore the fix works not for me - though the problem is listed by those fix makers but diagnostic is applicable for me and so their solution. Thus, both modes - mono and stereo, 8/16 kHz work w/ my SB: $ arecord -D plughw:0,0 -c 1 -r 16000 -f S16_LE - | aplay -D plughw:0,0 -c 1 -r 16000 -f S16_LE - BTW, as a workaround w/ latency for redirection of my voice (from mic. to speakers) :o) Not what I wanted, but better than nothing. But ekiga does not echos my voice though as I have mentioned in other messages - mic. volume reflects my speech. > > . Voice redirection from mic. to speakers (they have mentioned on > > simplification of SB circuits - and I believe it is my case - > > therefore another mic. type is needed - do not know when - if ever > > - I obtain one); > > http://bit.ly/PEwU5U > > Google suggests using "jackd" to get this working (mic going through > speakers) among other solutions but I don't know if it's worth the > effort. In the end, what's your goal for having this? Sometimes, for singing is good. :o) Thank You for link but sends me google start page. > > . Can not here my voice back from ekiga test numbers nor from the > > link above that You gave. - For both calls I can hear sound but it > > seems they do not hear me - though mic. volume meter of ekiga - > > changes as I speak, so mic. probably works but either it is not > > send over network (I checked my firewall and did not see relevelent > > droppings in my logs), or ekiga does not get mic. signal - but as > > its meter reflects when I speak, then I suppose it is wrong > > suggestion. > > It works on my side but as I already told you, is almost unusable. I > don't know if Ekiga is the one to blame here but trying with a > different softphone won't neither hurt. > > I have in my radar "Jitsi" (https://jitsi.org/), it was an > application I've been following very close because I like the fact > it's written in Java thus can be used also from a windows system, > although still not tested :-P OK. Thank You. I just would not install software from non-debian repo.s. In case I will move it to a VM, then I will try it, though do not know when. > > I guess ekiga people should make a diagnostic tool - that audio/net > > problems might be inspected more accurate. > > Sure. And what is worse, now there is no way to tell Ekiga what input/ > output hardware device to choose, it has to be done from the GNOME > sound applet first :-/ That's what I think is bad in DEs: they develop their software only in conjunction w/ whole DE instead of making working standing alone functionality - like konsole or kate from KDE, ekiga, evince from gnome, etc. Who prevents them from feeding command line parameters to the GUI programs - at least?! I will look for ekiga list - may they will shed some light on the problem. Sthu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50325496.5086980a.3da5.ffffe...@mx.google.com
