GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 346403
Sound error when calling in
Last modified: 2006-08-25 17:28:06 UTC
Please describe the problem: I have a sipgate.de account. When I ring myself from landline to ekiga and hit the answer button, I receive the message, that my driver is not full duplex capable. I am running Ubuntu 6.06. Steps to reproduce: 1. start ekiga 2. call my sip-number from landline 3. hit the answer button in ekiga Actual results: message appears saying audio hardware is not full duplex capable or other program is using the sound hardware Expected results: no such message appears and sound is working Does this happen every time? yes Other information: I hope this helps, if you need more information I would be more than happy to give it to you.
My guess is that you're using the OSS plugin, which may have full-duplex issues. Install and use the ALSA plugin.
Or the soundcard is already busy. I really think it is a configuration issue and not a bug.
This is what I get when I do: cat /dev/sndstat Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.10rc3 emulation code) Kernel: Linux Gurke 2.6.15-25-386 #1 PREEMPT Wed Jun 14 11:25:49 UTC 2006 i686 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation Card config: NVidia nForce2 with ALC650F at 0xe8081000, irq 193 MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10 USB Device 0x471:0x311 at usb-0000:00:02.0-2, full speed Audio devices: 0: NVidia nForce2 (DUPLEX) 2: USB Audio Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Midi devices: 1: MPU-401 UART MIDI Timers: 7: system timer Mixers: 0: Realtek ALC650F 1: mixer10 2: USB Mixer In the audio device section of ekiga, the alsa plugin is enabled, no other choices are available. Is it due to Ubunut 6.06?
I'm using ubuntu 6.06. Does it work when you call sip:500@ekiga.net ?
And are you sure ESD or ARTSD or whatever is not already using the soundcard?
I called 500@ekiga.net: ekiga reported: security check failed. I found a checkbox in ubuntus audio configuration saying software mixing of system sounds (ESD). I disabled this, now it works. But I cannot hear the system sounds anymore. Is this the wanted behaviour?
Blah... if you disable system sounds, you don't hear system sounds : that is the normal behaviour. If you enable it though, you should hear system sounds *and* ekiga should pause it correctly ; at least ekiga does what it takes so things happen this way. Unfortunately, we have issues with esound, which make things less bright : it basically doesn't work reliably. I hate esound. Kill it, kill it, kill it.
Sorry, probably I did not write clearly what I meant. Of course I cannot hear system sounds anymore, when I disable them.:) But is it wanted by ekiga, that I have to disable system sounds so ekiga is working? Anyway, do you need more information? Can I help somehow? Otherwise I would stop here.
Well, I haven't been very clear either :-) Ekiga stops esound when a call begins. In such a situation, esound is supposed to be stopped. For unknown reasons, it isn't. We have no idea why. We do the right thing in ekiga ; esound is the problem...
Well, this problem is like #329015 : there is something very wrong which happens with esound and we don't know what. Marking this one as duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 329015 ***