GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 340582
Allow to test sound in Assistant and Preferences
Last modified: 2020-06-06 16:29:49 UTC
Linux + Microphones can be a bit tricky sometimes. (On my A22p thinkpad exactly 3 'switches' have to be enabled; 1 of these is highly non-obvious!) May I suggest that a quick wizard/configuration tester would be useful! This wizard would: a)Have a link to launch alsamixer-gui (or gnome-alsamixer etc) b)have a button to play a tone (or better, a short speech sample) through the speaker c)have a VU-meter to show the levels coming in from the mic, and an option to loop it back to the headphones. I know this shouldn't be neccessary, but I spent a considerable time troubleshooting - only to discover that the Mic wasn't working properly for capture! ------------- Incidentally, why can't ekiga use an outbound proxy in the same way that linphone (with fwd.pulver.com) can? This allows you to overcome the problem with symmetric nat.
We already have a tester in the assistant.
Sorry - my fault in failing to spot this. Nevertheless, it is only available from deeply within the configuration druid, and cannot be accessed directly. May I suggest that the "Test Settings" button (which resides on page 7/10 of the configuration druid) should *also* be placed in the Preferences->Devices->Audio Devices panel. I think it should be there, next to "Detect devices".
Ah, this is indeed a good enhancement proposal!
*** Bug 565196 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
With 3.2 and 3.3 there is no test button, either on Preferences, or Assistant :o( Modifying title accordingly.
Ekiga is not under active development anymore: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/273 Ekiga saw its last release 7 years ago. The last code commits were 4 years ago. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (and transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active Ekiga development again in the future.